Oil Prices Holding Steady Thanks To COVID-19, Stimulus Questions

Oil prices are holing stead, as investors are being pulled between encouraging economic news and a rising number of coronavirus cases nationwide and globally. West Texas Crude have held steady in the $40 per barrel range for the past couple of week, thanks to questions about COVID-19 as well as a proposed stimulus bill in D.C. Because of that, diesel prices, for the most part were unchanged in the past week.

National diesel average held steady at $2.43 a gallon, Washington’s diesel price held at $2.73 per gallon, Oregon’s diesel prices held at $2.61, meanwhile Idaho’s diesel price increased two cents over the past week to $2.31 a gallon.

Here are some of the lowest diesel prices we could find across the region:

• $2.41 a gallon in Tri-Cities
• $2.34 a gallon in Wenatchee
• $2.49 a gallon in Pullman
• $2.21 a gallon in Lewiston
• $2.29 a gallon in Moses Lake
• $2.19 a gallon in Pendleton
• $2.99 a gallon in Walla Walla
• $2.25 a gallon in Yakima

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