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Diesel prices top $6, costing consumers $46 billion

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  • Diesel prices in the United States topped $6 a gallon, an all-time high.
  • Average diesel reached $5.98 per gallon on September 10, according to AAA.
  • Brown University’s tracker estimates the surge cost U.S. consumers $46 billion, about $350 per household.
  • President Donald Trump threatened to cut the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, raising heating-oil bill concerns.
  • Energy Information Administration reports U.S. diesel inventories are lowest since 1982, raising autumn price-rise risk.