The forecast, released this week in the EIA’s Short Term Energy Outlook, also included a projection that the price of diesel will then see another significant drop in 2014, when a gallon of on-highway diesel is expected to average $3.76.
Diesel price tumbling, down 8.4 cents in 4 weeks
That is a return to August’s projection and a reversal of September’s forecast that the price of diesel in 2014 would average $3.82.
Both this year’s and next year’s averages likely saw a spike due to what appeared to be an increased chance of U.S. intervention in the Middle East, when it appeared in early September the U.S. military could become involved in the Syrian civil war.
Both yearly projections, too, would be a decrease from 2012, when on-highway diesel averaged $3.97 a gallon.
EIA’s outlook also included projections for natural gas, priced as dollars per thousand cubic feet. In 2012, natural gas averaged $10.66 per thousand cubic feet, and that price is expected to rise by a dime this year. EIA is projecting the price to shoot up, however, to $11.90 in 2014.
