The average price per gallon of diesel gasoline dropped 3.3 cents to $3.628 per gallon, according to the Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration (EIA).
This follows a 1.6 cent decrease last week, which was preceded by a 5.4 gain the week before and stands as the first increase going back to the week of June 23, when the weekly average headed up 3.7 cents to $3.919 per gallon.
On an annual basis, the average price per gallon is down 21.6 cents, and prices have fallen 39.3 cents since hitting a 2014 high of 4.021 during the week of March 10.
In its recently-issued Short Term Energy Outlook, the EIA pegged the average price for diesel prices in 2014 at $3.83 and $3.80 in 2015, with crude oil at $97.72 per barrel in 2014 and $94.58 in 2015.
WTI crude oil is at $75.78 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, according to a Bloomberg report.