The nationwide average price of diesel increased by a penny to $3.268 a gallon, the Department of Energy reported Sept. 17.
Trucking’s main fuel costs 47.7 cents a gallon more than it did a year ago, when the price was $2.791.
It appears that Hurricane Florence has had little impact on the price of diesel or gasoline as the storm, while causing widespread flooding in North Carolina, did not track into the Gulf Coast, where many of the nation’s oil processors have refineries.