We are all feeling the pain at the pump with soaring gasoline prices - but truckers and others using diesel fuel have it even worse.

According to the daily AAA survey, the average price for gas across the US was $4.22 on Wednesday. That is really high, but down  a bit from the all-time high of 4.33 on March 11.

Diesel costs a lot more per gallon, at $5.42 per gallon on Wednesday, reprenting a new record high, which has been happening almost every day recently. It was also up big from $2.46 a year ago

Below is a chart based on data from the US Energy Information administration showing average US diesel prices since the early 1990s:

After reaching a previous all-time high of around $4.80 per gallon in 2008, diesel fell to just $2.00 or so in 2010 and then again in 2015.

Then after a bit of a dip in 2020 during the start of the pandemic, it's been straight up from there to its current crazy levels, with some predicting more moves higher.

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