Brent Crude at $125.44/bbl, Up 10% on the Week

The DOE number for the week of 2026-10-05 is $6.199/gal, down 18.3 cents on the week, per EIA's weekly on-highway diesel price survey. At the stated 6.5 mpg reference, that is 95.4 cents a mile of fuel cost. The week's move trims about $14.08 from the cost of a 500-mile haul.

• Brent crude (Europe spot): $125.44/bbl as of Oct 6, up 10.1% week over week, per EIA's daily spot series. At 53% above the five-year median, Brent is the week's largest percentage mover across all series tracked here.
• WTI crude (Cushing spot): $96.24/bbl as of Oct 6, up 0.1% week over week and 24% above the five-year median, per EIA's daily spot series. Over the DOE survey week itself, WTI fell $3.24/bbl from $99.37/bbl to $96.13/bbl before recovering to near-flat by Oct 6.
• Crude vs pump, same span: The DOE number fell 18.3 cents while WTI dropped $3.24/bbl over the week ending Oct 5. Crude is roughly half the cost of a gallon at the pump and reaches it with a lag of days to weeks.
• West Coast vs Gulf Coast: The West Coast (PADD 5) at $7.229/gal sits 141.0 cents/gal over the Gulf Coast (PADD 3) at $5.819/gal, per EIA's weekly on-highway survey.
• Seasonal position: AAA Oregon/Idaho's Marie Dodds said Oct 6 that pump prices remain the highest on record for this time of year. The DOE number enters peak fall harvest trucking demand season with back-to-back weeks of declines.

Gulf Coast ULSD spot was $4.510/gal on Oct 5 and $4.565/gal on Oct 6, per EIA's daily spot series. New York Harbor ULSD was $4.713/gal on Oct 6. The US pump at $6.199/gal sits $1.689/gal over the Oct 5 Gulf Coast spot level. That gap includes fuel taxes and the full distribution layer. It is a retail-layer proxy, not a station margin.