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May 12, 2000 9:40 AM, EDT

The national average price of diesel fuel dropped for the second straight week, but the price of crude oil was on the rise due to predictions of shortages in the autumn and winter.

	Fuel Prices
	Week of May 8:
	source	price		change
	DOE	140.2		-1.6
	Comdata*	138.8		-1.5
	OPIS self-serve*	140.1		-1.6
	OPIS wholesale*	81.5		-4.0
	*Comdata and OPIS figures are for the week of April 29-May 5. Click here for more fuel prices.
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The retail price of diesel fuel, as reported by the federal Energy Information Administration, was $1.402 a gallon on May 8. That was 1.6 cents below the previous week and 9.4 cents below the March 13 price of $1.496.

However, the price is still at a lofty level.

“The year-to-date retail average is a whopping 42.5% above the same period last year,” said Diego Saltes, an analyst with the Economics and Statistics Group of American Trucking Associations.

For the full story, see the May 15 print edition of Transport Topics. .