The U.S. average retail price of diesel climbed 2.5 cents to $3.118 a gallon as crude oil hovered around $64 a barrel, the Department of Energy reported April 15.
Diesel now costs 1.4 cents more than it did a year ago, when the price was $3.104 per gallon, DOE said.
Prices rose everywhere, with the sharpest increase on the West Coast, where they climbed 6 cents to $3.651.