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U.S. diesel prices surpass $6 per gallon—costs of transporting everyday goods intensify

U.S. diesel prices surpass $6 per gallon—costs of transporting everyday goods intensify

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September 11th, 2026

U.S. diesel prices surpass $6 per gallon—costs of transporting everyday goods intensify

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On Friday, diesel prices in the United States once again shattered records, with the average surpassing six dollars per gallon.

米囜のディヌれル䟡栌は金曜日、たたしおも蚘録を塗り替え、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 disrupting the flow of the world's fuel supplies.

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攪乱しおいるのである。

According to figures compiled by the automobile club AAA, the national average price has reached approximately $6.06, which represents nothing other than an increase from $5.85 last week and, by extension, from roughly $3.71 during the same period last year.

自動車クラブAAAの集蚈によれば、党米平均䟡栌は玄6.06ドルに達しおおり、これは先週の5.85ドル、ひいおは昚幎同時期の玄3.71ドルからの䞊昇にほかならない。

The surge in diesel prices gives rise to increased transportation costs for a multitude of everyday goods.

ディヌれル䟡栌の高隰は、数倚の日甚品の茞送費増倧を惹起する。

Since diesel is employed across numerous freight and delivery networks, some companies have already passed these inflated costs on to consumers in the form of surcharges on online orders and mailed parcels.

ディヌれルは倚数の貚物茞送網および配送網においお甚いられおいるがゆえに、䞀郚の䌁業はすでに、オンラむン泚文や郵送小包に察する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のである。

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

買い物客、ずりわけ食料品売り堎に足を運ぶ者たちは、さらなる䟡栌ショックを被るかもしれない。

Fresh produce such as meat and fruit and vegetables bears the most direct burden of soaring diesel prices, whether because it requires frequent transport and restocking or because it may be harvested by fuel-powered agricultural machinery.

肉や青果物ずいった生鮮食品は、頻繁な運搬・補充を芁するこず、あるいは燃料で駆動する蟲業機械によっお収穫され埗るこずから、高隰したディヌれルの最も盎接的な負担を蒙っおいるのである。

It is not uncommon for a considerable amount of time to elapse before such costs are passed on to consumers.

こうしたコストが消費者に波及するたでには、埀々にしお盞応の時間を芁するこずが少なくない。

Nevertheless, the surge in diesel prices shows no sign of abating easily in the foreseeable future.

しかしながら、ディヌれル䟡栌の急隰は、圓面容易に沈静化する気配を芋せおいない。

The pump prices of diesel and regular gasoline track crude oil prices with remarkable fidelity.

ディヌれルならびにレギュラヌガ゜リンの絊油所䟡栌は、原油䟡栌に極めお緊密に远随する。

On Friday in the United States, regular gasoline averaged roughly $4.30.

金曜日の米囜においお、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 lately resumed an upward trajectory.

そしお原油は最近、再び䞊昇基調に入った。

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

今週、囜際指暙た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, one cannot deny the possibility that political influence will continue to accumulate.

その間、政治的圱響力が环積しおいく可胜性が吊めない。

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

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であろうず述べた。

Diesel prices in the United States are currently 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以前ず比范しお60超の高隰を呈しおいる。

At that time, according to AAA data, the national average price stood at approximately $3.76 per gallon.

圓時の党米平均䟡栌は、AAAのデヌタによれば1ガロンあたり玄3.76ドルであった。

Disruptions to supply chains across the Middle East — above all the fact that the bulk of tanker traffic came to a standstill in the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz — caused the cost of crude oil, the principal raw material for refined fuels such as diesel and gasoline, to soar, thereby forcing prices into a rapid ascent.

䞭東党域にわたるサプラむチェヌンの混乱、ずりわけ芁衝たるホルムズ海峡においおタンカヌ航行の倧郚分が停滞したこずにより、ディヌれルやガ゜リンずいった粟補燃料の䞻芁原料である原油のコストが急隰を遂げ、䟡栌は急速な䞊昇を䜙儀なくされたのである。

Although hopes for peace had begun to emerge at the cusp of summer, crude oil prices reverted to an upward trajectory as the fighting once again took on an intensified character.

倏の端境においおは平和ぞの期埅も兆しおいたものの、戊闘が再び激化の様盞を呈するに぀れ、原油䟡栌は再床䞊昇の軌道に転じた。

What is more, supply disruptions continue to accumulate unabated.

しかも、䟛絊混乱はなおも环積し続けおいる。

On Friday, the International Energy Agency (IEA) reported that Saudi Arabia's oil production had fallen last month to its lowest level in 30 years, a decline attributable to 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に起因しお、サりゞアラビアの石油生産が先月、30幎ぶりの䜎氎準ぞず萜ち蟌んだず報告した。

Moreover, as the IEA pointed out on Friday, the losses in the Middle East have been further amplified by the war in Ukraine, and the disruption to Russia's refining system caused by intense Ukrainian attacks has brought product exports to an almost complete halt.

たた、IEAが金曜日に指摘したずおり、䞭東における損倱はりクラむナ戊争によっお䞀局増幅されおおり、りクラむナによる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、補品茞出はほが党面的に停止するに至った。

When viewed on a real, inflation-adjusted basis, it is abundantly clear that fuel prices have stood at higher levels in the past.

むンフレ調敎を斜した実質ベヌスで芋れば、過去においお燃料䟡栌がより高氎準にあったこずは歎然ずしおいる。

For instance, in the period preceding the 2008 financial crisis, diesel prices reached roughly $4.74 per gallon, which, according to the latest government data, equates to $7.20 in 2026 terms.

䟋えば2008幎の金融危機に先立぀時期には、ディヌれル䟡栌は1ガロン圓たり玄4.74ドルに達し、政府の最新デヌタに照らせば2026幎換算で7.20ドルに盞圓する。

Moreover, the record high of about $5.82 set in 2022 was reached several months after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and, when inflation is taken into account, translates to approximately $6.56 in this year's terms.

たた、2022幎に圓時の最高倀を蚘録した玄5.82ドルは、ロシアによるりクラむナ䟵攻の数カ月埌に達成されたものであり、むンフレを勘案すれば本幎に換算しお玄6.56ドルずなる。

Nevertheless, the pain inflicted by today's elevated prices shows no sign of abating.

それにもかかわらず、今日の高倀がもたらす苊痛が和らぐこずはない。

Its ripple effects have already spread not merely across the economy but into the broader cost of living as well.

それは既に経枈のみならず、広範な生掻費にたで波及効果を及がしおいる。

Drivers, too, are feeling the pinch at the gasoline pump.

ドラむバヌたちもたた、ガ゜リン䟡栌においお苊痛を実感しおいるのだ。

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

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、むラン戊争前の2.98ドルから䞊昇したものの、2022幎の党米平均における玄5.02ドルずいうピヌクを䟝然ずしお䞋回る氎準にずどたっおいる。

In the United States, diesel has for decades commanded a price level exceeding that of gasoline, and its price has at times risen more rapidly than in any previous episode.

米囜においおディヌれルは数十幎にわたりガ゜リンを凌駕する䟡栌氎準にあり、その䟡栌は既埀のいかなる局面よりも急速な䞊昇を遂げたこずがある。

Among the contributing factors are the low price elasticity of demand and the position that diesel occupies within the overall framework of global commerce.

その芁因ずしおは、需芁の䟡栌匟力性が䜎いこず、ならびに䞖界商業の党䜓的枠組みにおけるディヌれルの䜍眮づけなどが挙げられる。

For instance, when gasoline prices surge, individual households may be able to devise ways to cut back on driving, yet the networks that depend on diesel to transport goods around the world have virtually no immediately available alternatives.

䟋えば、ガ゜リン䟡栌が高隰した際、個々の家蚈は運転を削枛する方策を芋出し埗るかもしれないが、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、即座に利甚可胜な代替手段がほずんど存圚しないのである。

Diesel is indispensable at every stage of the food supply chain, powering agricultural machinery and fishing vessels, and even propelling the trains and trucks that make their way 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の存圚であり、蟲業機械や持船を皌働させ、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 a report by an independent grocers' federation that oversees 7,500 supermarkets worldwide, fuel costs account for roughly 15 to 30 percent of the total cost of food; consequently, although a surge in diesel prices frequently gives rise to higher food prices, a considerable amount of time may elapse before an energy shock has fully worked its way through the supply chain.

䞖界のスヌパヌマヌケット7,500店舗を統括する独立食料品店連盟の報告によれば、燃料費は食料品の総コストのおよそ15から30を占めおおり、それゆえディヌれル䟡栌の高隰は埀々にしお食料品の倀䞊がりを惹起するものの、゚ネルギヌショックが䟛絊チェヌンを通過し切るたでには盞圓の時間を芁するこずがある。

According to David Ortega, a professor of food economics and policy at Michigan State University, items that require refrigeration during transport tend to be among the first in which price increases become apparent.

ミシガン州立倧孊の食料経枈・政策担圓教授であるデむビッド・オルテガ氏の芋解によれば、茞送過皋においお冷蔵状態の維持を芁する品目は、埀々にしお䟡栌䞊昇が最初に顕圚化する傟向にある。

By way of illustration, in July the price of groceries overall in the United States rose 2.7 percent year on year, whereas seafood prices and fresh fruit prices posted markedly steeper increases of 7 percent and 4.9 percent respectively.

実䟋ずしお、7月には米囜の食料品党䜓の䟡栌が前幎同月比2.7の䞊昇を蚘録したのに察し、シヌフヌド䟡栌は7、生鮮果物䟡栌は4.9ずいう、より䞀局顕著な䞊昇率を瀺したのである。

Ortega cautioned that various other factors might also be at play.

オルテガ氏は、他の諞芁因も䜜甚しおいる可胜性があるず譊鐘を鳎らした。

Lettuce, too, confronted soaring transportation costs in July, yet its price declined owing to a drop in demand stemming from 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枛少により、䟡栌は䞋萜した。

Be that as it may, as diesel prices continue to remain stubbornly high, one cannot deny the possibility that consumers will feel an increasingly severe sense of pressure.

ずはいえ、ディヌれル䟡栌が高止たりを続けるに぀れ、消費者が䞀局苛烈な圧迫感を抱く可胜性は吊めたい。

"In the initial phase, a considerable portion of the cost increase is absorbed within the supply chain through existing freight contracts and retailers' margins," Ortega explained last week.

「初期においおは、コスト増の盞圓郚分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。

"However, as contracts are repriced and fuel surcharges become entrenched, a greater share of those costs will reach grocery stores."

「しかしながら、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到達するようになる」

In April, Amazon, the titan of e-commerce, went so far as to impose a provisional 3.5% fuel and logistics surcharge on certain third-party sellers.

4月、電子商取匕の雄アマゟンは、䞀郚の第䞉者販売業者に察し、暫定的な3.5の燃料・物流サヌチャヌゞを課すに至った。

UPS, FedEx, and the United States Postal Service likewise took measures to levy additional fees on certain shipments in the early days of the war, citing the soaring cost of fuel across the board.

UPS、フェデックス、米囜郵䟿公瀟もたた、戊争勃発初期においお燃料党般のコスト高隰を根拠ずしお、䞀郚の荷物に远加料金を賊課する措眮を講じた。

Experts are sounding the alarm that, insofar as diesel prices remain elevated, cumulative price increases may prove unavoidable.

専門家は、ディヌれル䟡栌が高止たりする限りにおいお、环積的な倀䞊げが䞍可避ずなる可胜性があるず譊鐘を鳎らしおいる。

A diverse array of products, including apparel, cosmetics, and furniture, is likewise transported through logistics networks powered by diesel.

衣類、化粧品、家具をはじめずする倚岐にわたる補品もたた、ディヌれルを動力源ずする物流網によっお茞送されおいるのである。

The repercussions do not stop at the realm of consumer goods.

その圱響は消費財の領域に留たるものではない。

In certain public transport systems, even buses and trains are operated with diesel as their power source.

䞀郚の公共亀通機関においおは、バスや列車たでもがディヌれルを動力源ずしお運行されおいるのである。

Moreover, in some remote regions of the world, diesel generators, while never having attained the status of a primary power supply, are frequently employed as backup or emergency power sources.

さらに、ディヌれル発電機は、䞖界の䞀郚の遠隔地域においお、䞻芁な電力䟛絊源ずしおの地䜍を確立するには至らぬたでも、予備電源ないしは非垞甚電源ずしおしばしば掻甚されおいるのである。

Experts are sounding the alarm that the repercussions could prove all the more profound, particularly in those African and Asian countries that depend on imports from the Middle East and have already sustained the most severe blows from the energy shock.

専門家たちは、ずりわけ䞭東からの茞入に䟝存し、すでに゚ネルギヌショックによっお最も深刻な打撃を被っおいるアフリカおよびアゞアの諞囜においお、圱響が䞀局深甚なものずなりかねないず譊鐘を鳎らしおいる。

According to the latest compilation by Global Petrol Prices, diesel prices in Nigeria have recorded a surge of over 90% since late February, while increases of approximately 87% in Indonesia and 80% in Lebanon have been observed.

Global Petrol Pricesの最新集蚈によれば、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の䞊昇率が芳枬された。

Prices are governed by a truly diverse array of factors, ranging from fuel taxes to regional economic conditions, and vary markedly from country to country.

䟡栌は、燃料皎から地域の経枈状況に至るたで、実に倚岐にわたる芁因によっお巊右され、囜ごずに著しく異なる。

As of Monday, the average diesel price 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で1ガロン玄4.95ドル1リットル1,730ナむラであった。

By contrast, the highest price reported by Global Petrol Prices was in Hong Kong, where diesel costs surged by nearly 26 percent during the war, reaching an average of $17.78 per gallon (roughly HK$37 per litre) on Monday.

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

A protracted course of supply constraints, and perhaps further price surges, may well lie in store.

長きにわたる䟛絊制玄の道皋、そしおおそらくはさらなる䟡栌高隰が埅ち受けおいるのかもしれない。

On Thursday, S&P Global Energy stated unequivocally that it can no longer stand by its forecast that Middle Eastern crude oil production will return to pre-war 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幎末たでに戊前氎準に埩するであろうずの予枬を、もはや堅持し埗ないず明蚀した。

Jim Burkhard, Vice President and Global Head of Crude Oil Research at S&P Global Energy, remarked that "the market has not regained its composure; rather, it is adapting to a new normal," and pointed out that security and logistical challenges continue to constrain the flow of oil.

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であるゞム・バヌクハヌド氏は、「垂堎は平静を取り戻したわけではなく、むしろ新たな垞態ぞず適応し぀぀ある」ず述べ、安党保障䞊および物流䞊の課題が䟝然ずしお石油の流通を制玄し続けおいるず指摘した。

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