MOTOR FUEL PRICES
Retail Gasoline Prices (weekly data, not seasonally adjusted)
Retail On-Highway Diesel Prices (weekly data, not seasonally adjusted)
Motor fuel prices are an important cost component of highway transportation. Changes
in motor fuel prices impact the behavior of both producers and consumers, and affect the
demand for transportation in terms of level and modal mix.
In the United States, motor gasoline prices follow world crude oil prices more
closely than motor diesel prices. Changes in motor fuel prices affect the profit
margin of transportation firms, particularly trucking firms.
There are regional differences in motor fuel prices, as the maps illustrate.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration,
Weekly On-Highway Diesel Prices , as of Apr. 19, 2001, available
at: http://www.eia.doe.gov/.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information
Administration, Weekly On-Highway Diesel Prices, as of Apr. 19, 2001,
available at: http://www.eia.doe.gov/.
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