{"id":302602,"date":"2026-10-08T21:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T21:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/302602\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T21:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T21:16:11","slug":"diesel-prices-in-pennsylvania-impact-penndot-maintenance-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/302602\/","title":{"rendered":"Diesel prices in Pennsylvania impact PennDOT maintenance projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/news-team\/ee3b9e0b-c62f-4d02-923c-95c976d19fe9\" aria-label=\"Tasmin Mahfuz profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791494171_686_ee3b9e0b-c62f-4d02-923c-95c976d19fe9_1718896865.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Tasmin Mahfuz\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Diesel fuel prices in Pennsylvania have climbed to $6.54 per gallon, just seven cents below the state record set a few weeks ago, impacting PennDOT operations.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The high fuel costs are affecting equipment used for maintenance projects such as paving, filling potholes, and bridge preservation.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">&#8220;That basically means if we had picked a road to pave, maybe we can&#8217;t pave it at that time. We may have to do a seal coat on top to extend the life expectancy of that road until we have the funding again to actually pay for that,&#8221; PennDOT said.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">PennDOT stated that larger construction and preservation projects are currently unaffected because fuel costs for these projects are set during the bidding process before work begins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Diesel fuel prices in Pennsylvania have climbed to $6.54 per gallon, just seven cents below the state record&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[116374,72387,70721,61890,61889,61879,4033,80012,47785,44877,91644,124438,124443,123695,124440,124442,124433,60769,3431,124439,28,30,29,8099,124434,124441,124437,6014,41190,124436,124435,40446,17531,2812],"class_list":["post-302602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-bidding-process","tag-bridge-preservation","tag-construction-projects","tag-diesel-fuel","tag-diesel-price","tag-diesel-prices","tag-equipment","tag-few-week","tag-fuel-costs","tag-gallon","tag-high-fuel-cost","tag-high-fuel-prices","tag-large-construction","tag-life-expectancy","tag-maintenance-equipment","tag-maintenance-plan","tag-maintenance-projects","tag-paving","tag-penndot","tag-penndot-operations","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-per-gallon","tag-pothole-filling","tag-preservation-project","tag-preservation-projects","tag-road","tag-road-maintenance","tag-road-paving","tag-seal-coat","tag-state-record","tag-top","tag-wgal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}