{"id":462057,"date":"2026-09-13T00:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T00:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/462057\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T00:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T00:04:08","slug":"diesel-fuel-prices-in-california-reach-record-high-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/462057\/","title":{"rendered":"Diesel fuel prices in California reach record high \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The average price for a gallon of diesel fuel in California has reached an all-time high.<\/p>\n<p>The average reported Saturday by motor club <a href=\"https:\/\/gasprices.aaa.com\/?state=CA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AAA<\/a> was $8.0956, nearly $3 more than one year ago. One month ago, a gallon of diesel averaged $6.8692 in California.<\/p>\n<p>In Los Angeles County, a gallon of diesel is averaging $8.0440, up from $5.1832 a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. diesel prices have soared beyond $6 per gallon, reaching another record on Friday as war with Iran disrupts the world\u2019s flow of fuel. The national average of $6.05 is up from $5.85 last week and $3.70 this time last year, according to AAA.<\/p>\n<p>Long-haul truckers are some of the first to take a hit when prices soar for the price of diesel, the fuel used for many freight and delivery trucks. At some point, soaring diesel prices can have a trickle-down effect.<\/p>\n<p>A gallon of regular gas was averaging $5.9732 Saturday in California, up from $4.6402 a year ago. In Los Angeles County, the average price for a gallon of regular was at $6.0210 Saturday, up from $4.6978 a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>The national average for a gallon of regular was at $4.3104.<\/p>\n<p>Retail prices for regular gasoline are typically higher in California than national averages and prices in other states due to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.ca.gov\/what-drives-californias-gasoline-prices\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">factors<\/a>\u00a0that include taxes and fees, and environmental and fuel requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The average price for a gallon of diesel fuel in California has reached an all-time high. The average&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49,23526],"class_list":["post-462057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-oil-gas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}