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The $5.454 diesel price is a pump average, not your contract rate
The EIA figure includes taxes and comes from retail pumps surveyed every Monday — fleets buying on contract pay less, and the gap widens when prices move fast.
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Explainer
Your fuel surcharge in three numbers, with diesel at $5.454 a gallon
A subtraction and a division turn the EIA weekly average into cents per mile -- the number drivers get wrong is which price to plug in.
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Explainer
What a PADD is, and why it sets your fuel surcharge
The government sorts the country into five fuel districts; this week they ran from $5.237 a gallon on the Gulf Coast to $6.203 on the West Coast.