The national average price for diesel increased 2.3 cents to
$2.472 per gallon for the week ending Jan. 23, according to the Energy
Information Administration.
Though there was a slight decline in mid-January, prices
across the board shot up this week.
California
saw the biggest increase, with prices there surging a whopping 7.1 cents to
$2.674 per gallon, the highest in the country. By contrast, the rest of the
West Coast saw a 4.3-cent rise to $2.608 per gallon.
New England
had the
second-highest prices, coming in at $2.668 per gallon. The
Central
Atlantic
wasn’t too far away, at $2.610 per gallon. The
Lower Atlantic
region, however, stayed lower at $2.462
per gallon.
The East Coast, as a whole, saw a 2.7-cent increase to
$2.516 per gallon.
The lowest prices in the country were found in the
Midwest
, at $2.423 per gallon. The
Gulf
Coast
and
Rocky
Mountain
regions weren’t far behind, at $2.432 and $2.435 per gallon, respectively.