The Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration reports that after small but steady notches downward in the last several months, the price of diesel shot up 9.5 cents this week to a national average of $4.022 cents. The price had slowly been trending down to a near year-over-year plateau, but after this week’s jump, the price remains nearly 20 cents higher than the same point in January of last year.

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