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US diesel prices surpass $6 per gallon, deepening the burden on everyday goods transportation

US diesel prices surpass $6 per gallon, deepening the burden on everyday goods transportation

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September 11th, 2026

US diesel prices surpass $6 per gallon, deepening the burden on everyday goods transportation

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On Friday, diesel prices in the United States set a new record once again, with the average surpassing six dollars per gallon.

米囜のディヌれル䟡栌は金曜日、再び蚘録を塗り替え、平均で1ガロン圓たり6ドルを超えるに至った。

The war between Washington and Iran is throwing the flow of global fuel supplies into disarray.

ワシントンずむランの間の戊争が、䞖界の燃料䟛絊の流れを混乱に陥れおいる。

According to a report by the automobile club AAA, the national average price has reached approximately $6.06, representing an increase from $5.85 last week and even from around $3.71 at the same time last year.

自動車クラブAAAの報告によれば、党米平均䟡栌はおよそ6.06ドルに達しおおり、これは先週の5.85ドル、さらには昚幎同時期の玄3.71ドルから䞊昇したものである。

The surge in diesel prices means higher transportation costs for numerous everyday goods.

ディヌれル䟡栌の高隰は、数倚くの日甚品の茞送費増倧を意味する。

This is because diesel is used in many freight and delivery networks.

ずいうのも、ディヌれルは倚くの貚物茞送網や配送網においお䜿甚されおいるからである。

And some companies are already passing on the inflated costs to consumers in the form of surcharges on online orders and mailed parcels.

そしお䞀郚の䌁業はすでに、オンラむン泚文や郵送小包ぞの远加料金ずいう圢で、高隰したコストを消費者に転嫁しおいる。

Shoppers, particularly in the grocery aisles, may be in for further price shocks.

買い物客、特に食料品売り堎では、さらなる䟡栌ショックを感じるかもしれない。

Fresh foods such as meat and produce are facing the most direct burden of expensive diesel, either because they must be transported and restocked frequently or because they may be harvested with fuel-powered agricultural machinery.

肉や青果物のような生鮮食品は、頻繁に運搬・補充する必芁があるため、あるいは燃料で動く蟲業機械で収穫される可胜性があるため、高䟡なディヌれルの最も盎接的な負担に盎面しおいる。

It often takes a considerable amount of time for such costs to be passed on to consumers.

こうしたコストが消費者に波及するたでには、埀々にしお盞圓の時間を芁するこずがある。

However, there is no sign that the surge in diesel prices will subside for the time being.

しかしながら、ディヌれル䟡栌の急隰は、圓面収束する兆しが芋えない。

The pump prices of diesel and regular gasoline are closely tied to crude oil prices.

ディヌれルおよびレギュラヌガ゜リンの絊油所䟡栌は、原油䟡栌に密接に連動する。

In the United States on Friday, regular gasoline reached an average of about $4.30.

金曜日の米囜においおは、レギュラヌガ゜リンは平均で玄4.30ドルに達した。

And crude oil has recently entered an upward phase once again.

そしお原油は最近、再び䞊昇局面に入った。

This week, both Brent crude, the international benchmark, and US crude surpassed $100 a barrel for the first time in several months, as fighting between the United States and Iran intensified once again.

今週、囜際指暙であるブレント原油ず米囜産原油の双方が、米囜ずむランの戊闘が再び激化する䞭で、数カ月ぶりに1バレル100ドルを超えた。

In the meantime, there is a risk that political influence will continue to accumulate.

その間、政治的圱響力が环積しおいく恐れがある。

President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly sought to play down the impact of the war he jointly initiated, said that crude oil prices probably will not fall until after the midterm elections in November.

共同で開始した戊争の圱響を再䞉にわたり軜芖しようずしおきたドナルド・トランプ倧統領は、原油䟡栌はおそらく11月の䞭間遞挙埌たで䞋萜しないだろうず述べた。

Diesel prices in the United States are now more than 60% higher than they were before the US and Israel attacked Iran in late February.

米囜のディヌれル䟡栌は珟圚、米囜ずむスラ゚ルが2月䞋旬にむランを攻撃する前ず比べお60以䞊高くなっおいる。

According to AAA, the national average at that time was about $3.76 a gallon.

AAAによれば、圓時の党米平均は1ガロン玄3.76ドルであった。

Supply chain disruptions across the Middle East — above all the halt in most tanker traffic through the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz — caused the cost of crude oil, the main raw material for refined fuels such as diesel and gasoline, to soar, and prices rose rapidly.

䞭東党域のサプラむチェヌン混乱、ずりわけ重芁なホルムズ海峡で倧郚分のタンカヌ航行が停滞したこずにより、ディヌれルやガ゜リンなどの粟補燃料の䞻原料である原油のコストが急隰し、䟡栌は急速に䞊昇した。

Although there were hopes for peace in early summer, crude oil began to rise again as the fighting intensified once more.

倏の初めには平和ぞの期埅もあったが、戊闘が再び激化する䞭で原油は再び䞊昇を始めた。

And supply disruptions are piling up even further.

そしお䟛絊混乱はさらに積み䞊がっおいる。

On Friday, the International Energy Agency (IEA) reported that Saudi Arabia's oil production fell last month to its lowest level in 30 years because of Houthi attacks on energy facilities.

囜際゚ネルギヌ機関IEAは金曜日、フヌシ掟による゚ネルギヌ斜蚭ぞの攻撃のため、サりゞアラビアの石油生産が先月、30幎ぶりの䜎氎準に萜ち蟌んだず報告した。

Moreover, as the IEA pointed out on Friday, the losses in the Middle East are being amplified by the war in Ukraine.

たた、IEAが金曜日に指摘したように、䞭東での損倱はりクラむナ戊争によっお増幅されおいる。

Disruption to Russia's refining system caused by intense Ukrainian attacks has brought product exports to a near halt.

りクラむナの激しい攻撃に起因するロシアの粟補システムの混乱により、補品茞出はほが停止した。

When viewed on a real, inflation-adjusted basis, fuel prices have been higher in the past as well.

むンフレ調敎埌の実質ベヌスで芋るず、過去にも燃料䟡栌はより高かった。

For instance, before the 2008 financial crisis, diesel reached roughly $4.74 a gallon, which, according to the latest government data, is equivalent to $7.20 in 2026 terms.

䟋えば2008幎の金融危機前、ディヌれルは1ガロン玄4.74ドルに達し、政府の最新デヌタによれば2026幎換算で7.20ドルに盞圓する。

Moreover, the record of about $5.82 set in 2022 was reached a few months after Russia invaded Ukraine, and when inflation is taken into account, that amounts to roughly $6.56 this year.

たた2022幎の圓時の蚘録である玄5.82ドルは、ロシアがりクラむナに䟵攻した数カ月埌に達成されたもので、むンフレを考慮するず今幎は玄6.56ドルになる。

Nevertheless, that does not alleviate the pain caused by today's high prices.

それにもかかわらず、今日の高倀がもたらす苊痛が緩和されるわけではない。

It has already had knock-on effects on the economy as a whole and on the broader cost of living.

それはすでに経枈党般や広範な生掻費に波及効果を及がしおいる。

Drivers are also feeling the pain of gasoline prices.

ドラむバヌたちはガ゜リンの䟡栌にも苊痛を感じおいる。

On Friday, the average price of a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline reached $4.29, up from $2.98 before the Iran war, yet it remains below the national average peak of about $5.02 recorded in 2022.

金曜日におけるレギュラヌ無鉛ガ゜リンの1ガロン圓たり平均䟡栌は4.29ドルに達しおおり、これはむラン戊争前の2.98ドルから䞊昇したものであるが、䟝然ずしお2022幎に蚘録された党米平均のピヌクである玄5.02ドルを䞋回る氎準にずどたっおいる。

In the United States, diesel has been more expensive than gasoline for decades, and its price has risen at a faster pace before as well.

米囜ではディヌれルは䜕十幎もの間ガ゜リンより高䟡であり、その䟡栌は以前にもより速いペヌスで䞊昇した。

The reasons include the low flexibility of demand and diesel's position within global commerce as a whole.

理由には、需芁の柔軟性が䜎いこずや、䞖界商業党䜓におけるディヌれルの地䜍などがある。

For instance, when gasoline prices are high, individual households may find ways to drive less, but networks that depend on diesel to transport goods around the world have few immediate alternatives.

䟋えばガ゜リン䟡栌が高い時、個々の家庭は運転を枛らす方法を芋぀けるかもしれないが、䞖界䞭で商品を茞送するためにディヌれルに䟝存するネットワヌクには、即座の代替手段が少ない。

Diesel is indispensable at every stage of the food supply chain, not only powering agricultural machinery and fishing boats but also driving the trains and trucks that head to grocery stores.

ディヌれルは食料䟛絊チェヌンのあらゆる局面においお䞍可欠な存圚であり、蟲業機械や持船を皌働させるのみならず、食料品店ぞず向かう列車やトラックをも動かしおいる。

According to an alliance of independent grocery stores that unites 7,500 supermarkets worldwide, fuel accounts for roughly 15% to 30% of the total cost of food.

䞖界のスヌパヌマヌケット7,500店を束ねる独立食料品店連盟によるず、燃料は食料の総コストのおよそ15から30を占める。

As a result, rising diesel costs often lead to higher food prices, yet it can take time for an energy shock to work its way through the supply chain.

そのためディヌれルコストの䞊昇はしばしば食料品の倀䞊がりに぀ながるが、゚ネルギヌショックが䟛絊チェヌンを巡り抜けるには時間がかかるこずがある。

According to David Ortega, a professor who teaches food economics and policy at Michigan State University, items that need to be kept refrigerated during transport are often the first to see price increases.

ミシガン州立倧孊で食料経枈・政策を教える教授、デむビッド・オルテガ氏によるず、茞送䞭に冷蔵状態を保぀必芁がある品目は、しばしば最初に䟡栌䞊昇が芋られる。

For example, in July, overall US grocery prices rose 2.7% year on year, while seafood prices climbed 7% and fresh fruit prices rose 4.9%.

䟋えば7月、米囜の食料品党䜓の䟡栌は前幎同月比2.7䞊昇したが、シヌフヌド䟡栌は7、生鮮果物䟡栌は4.9䞊昇した。

Ortega warned that various other factors may also be having an impact.

オルテガ氏は、他の諞芁因も圱響を及がしおいる可胜性があるず譊鐘を鳎らした。

Lettuce, too, faced soaring transportation costs in July, yet its price fell, owing to a drop in demand triggered by an outbreak of cyclospora infection.

レタスもたた7月には茞送費の高隰に盎面したものの、シクロスポラ感染症の発生に䌎う需芁の萜ち蟌みにより、䟡栌は䞋萜した。

Nevertheless, as diesel prices continue to remain high, consumers may find themselves bearing an increasingly heavy burden.

それにもかかわらず、ディヌれル䟡栌が高止たりを続けるに぀れお、消費者は䞀局深刻な負担を実感する可胜性がある。

"Initially, much of the cost increase is absorbed within the supply chain through existing freight contracts and retailers' margins," Ortega explained last week.

「初期には、コスト増の倚くは既存の貚物契玄や小売業者のマヌゞンを通じお䟛絊チェヌン内で吞収される」ずオルテガ氏は先週説明した。

"But as contracts are repriced and fuel surcharges take hold, more of that cost will make its way to grocery stores."

「しかし契玄が再䟡栌蚭定され、燃料サヌチャヌゞが定着するに぀れお、そのコストのより倚くが食料品店に届くようになる」

In April, e-commerce giant Amazon provisionally introduced a 3.5% fuel and logistics surcharge for some third-party sellers.

4月、電子商取匕倧手アマゟンは䞀郚の第䞉者販売業者に察し、暫定的に3.5の燃料・物流サヌチャヌゞを導入した。

UPS, FedEx, and the United States Postal Service also took measures to add fees to some shipments, citing the rise in overall fuel costs in the early stages of the war.

UPS、フェデックス、米囜郵䟿公瀟も、戊争初期に燃料党䜓のコストが䞊昇したこずを理由に、䞀郚の荷物に料金を远加する措眮を取った。

Experts are warning that as long as diesel prices remain high, price increases are likely to pile up.

専門家は、ディヌれル䟡栌が高止たりする限り、倀䞊げが环積しおいく恐れがあるず譊鐘を鳎らしおいる。

A wide variety of other products, including clothing, cosmetics, and furniture, are also transported through diesel-powered distribution networks.

衣類や化粧品、家具をはじめずする他の倚皮倚様な補品もたた、ディヌれルを動力源ずする茞送網によっお運ばれおいる。

The impact extends beyond consumer goods to the fact that some public transport buses and trains also run on diesel.

圱響は消費財のみならず、䞀郚の公共亀通機関のバスや列車もディヌれルで運行されおいるずいう事実にたで及ぶ。

Furthermore, in some remote parts of the world, diesel generators are frequently used as backup or emergency power sources, even if they are not the primary source of electricity.

さらに、ディヌれル発電機は、䞖界の䞀郚の遠隔地においお、䞻芁な電力源ではないにせよ、バックアップ電源や非垞甚電源ずしお頻繁に掻甚されおいる。

Experts warn that the impact could deepen further, particularly in African and Asian countries that depend on imports from the Middle East and have already been hit hardest by the energy shock.

専門家は、特に䞭東からの茞入に䟝存し、すでに゚ネルギヌショックで最も打撃を受けおいるアフリカやアゞアの囜々で、圱響がさらに深たる可胜性があるず譊告しおいる。

According to the latest data from Global Petrol Prices, diesel prices in Nigeria have soared by more than 90% since late February, while Indonesia has seen an increase of around 87% and Lebanon 80%.

Global Petrol Pricesの最新デヌタによれば、ナむゞェリアにおけるディヌれル䟡栌は2月䞋旬以降90超の急隰を蚘録し、むンドネシアでは玄87、レバノンでは80の䞊昇ずなった。

Prices vary considerably from one country to another, as they fluctuate in response to a wide range of factors, from fuel taxes to regional economic conditions.

䟡栌は、燃料皎から地域の経枈状況に至るたで、さたざたな芁因によっお倉動するため、囜ごずに倧きく異なる。

As of Monday, the average price of diesel in Nigeria stood at approximately $4.95 per gallon (1,730 naira per litre).

月曜日時点で、ナむゞェリアのディヌれル䟡栌は平均1ガロン玄4.95ドル1リットル1,730ナむラであった。

Meanwhile, the highest price reported by Global Petrol Prices was in Hong Kong, where diesel costs surged by nearly 26% during the war, averaging $17.78 per gallon (about HK$37 per litre) on Monday.

䞀方、Global Petrol Pricesが報告した最高䟡栌は銙枯で、戊争䞭にディヌれルコストはほが26䞊昇し、月曜日には平均1ガロン17.78ドル1リットル玄37銙枯ドルであった。

Supply constraints continue to show signs of being prolonged, and moreover, the possibility that a further price increase will become unavoidable cannot be ruled out.

䟛絊制玄は䟝然ずしお長期化の様盞を呈しおおり、さらには䞀段の䟡栌䞊昇が䞍可避ずなる可胜性も吊定できない。

On Thursday, S&P Global Energy stated that it no longer expects crude oil production in the Middle East to return to pre-conflict levels by the end of 2027.

S&Pグロヌバル・゚ナゞヌは朚曜日、䞭東の原油生産が2027幎末たでに玛争前の氎準に戻るずいう芋通しをもはや持っおいないず述べた。

"The market has not returned to calm; it is adapting to a new normal," said Jim Burkhard, vice president and global head of crude oil research at S&P Global Energy, noting that security and logistical challenges continue to constrain the flow of oil.

「垂堎は平静には戻っおおらず、新たな垞態に適応しおいる」ずS&Pグロヌバル・゚ナゞヌの原油調査担圓バむスプレゞデント兌グロヌバル責任者、ゞム・バヌクハヌド氏は述べ、安党保障ず物流䞊の課題が匕き続き石油の流れを制限しおいるず指摘した。

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