Nebraska Gasoline and Diesel Prices

For the week of November 6, Nebraska's average gasoline price decreased two cents per gallon from the previous week to $2.24, which was the same price at this time last year. This week, average prices in surveyed cities ranged from $2.13 in Columbus to $2.30 in North Platte. As of November 3, the Midwest gasoline stock level was at the upper boundary of the normal range with 51.8 million barrels.

Nebraska's average diesel price had fallen a penny to $2.57 per gallon. According to the weekly price report, this week's state average was 18 cents lower than the price at this time last year. Weekly averages in the surveyed cities ranged from $2.48 in Norfolk to $2.63 in Kearney. On the supply side, the Midwest distillate fuel inventory level was below the normal range with 20.3 million barrels of diesel fuel as of November 3.

Regular unleaded gasoline is regular unleaded motor gasoline with an 87 to 88 octane. Diesel fuel is fuel used for internal combustion in diesel engines.

An archive of this report, average gasoline prices for each month, average diesel prices for each month, and historical weekly prices are available for diesel and three grades of motor gasoline.

Source: Nebraska Energy Office, Lincoln, NE.

This report was updated on November 13, 2006.
Typically, there is one week between updates.