A California gas station this weekend pinned its pump display at its physical maximum because the hardware could not show what the fuel actually cost. Two simultaneous chokepoints in the Middle East explain how diesel prices got here, and the next move could hit grocery bills and trucking routes before winter.
At the Shell gas station in the Serra Mesa area of San Diego, California, the price of diesel was $9.99 per gallon, another price record during Donald Trump's presidency.