Diesel makes 12-cent spike

Feb. 10, 2003
The U.S. average price at the pump for a gallon of diesel fuel spiked 12 cents in the past week to $1.662 – less than a penny from the all-time recorded high. According to the U.S. Dept. of Energy, the average price leaped from $1.542 the previous week. The highest price previously recorded by the department's Energy Information Administration was $1.67, on October 16, 2000. Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst
The U.S. average price at the pump for a gallon of diesel fuel spiked 12 cents in the past week to $1.662 – less than a penny from the all-time recorded high.

According to the U.S. Dept. of Energy, the average price leaped from $1.542 the previous week. The highest price previously recorded by the department's Energy Information Administration was $1.67, on October 16, 2000.

Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst at Oil Price Information Service, said on the company's website that the U.S. could experience weekly fuel-price swings of 10-15 cents per gal. in the next 90 days.

Spikes this high have not been seen since the Arab Oil Embargo of 1973-4, Kloza said.

Drivers in New England are paying the highest price at $1.834, a 19.1-cent spike, while drivers in the Central Atlantic are paying $1.801.

At $1.574, the Rocky Mountain region is the only one with an average less than $1.60.

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