Creve Coeur fuel watch: St. Louis metro gas slips, diesel inches up
Creve Coeur MO Gas & Diesel Watch – AAA’s St. Louis metro check shows regular gas a bit lower than yesterday and diesel a bit higher, both still well above last month.
Creve Coeur drivers are seeing a small break on regular gas, while diesel edged a bit higher in the latest St. Louis metro AAA check. Regular unleaded averaged $4.275 a gallon on May 13, down from $4.281 yesterday, while diesel ticked up to $5.622 from $5.620.
That is a tiny day-over-day shift, but the month-to-month move is still the bigger budget story. Regular gas is up about 34 cents from a month ago in the St. Louis metro row, and diesel is up about 64 cents. For commuters, that means fill-ups are still costing more than they did a few weeks ago. For contractors, delivery drivers, restaurant operators, and other small businesses that burn through diesel or rack up a lot of miles, those cents add up fast over a week.
How Missouri and the nation compare
AAA’s Missouri average sits at $4.165 for regular gas and $5.266 for diesel. That keeps the state below the latest national gasoline benchmark and below the national diesel benchmark in the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s May 12 update, which put regular gasoline at $4.50 and on-highway diesel at $5.64.
For west St. Louis County readers, the main takeaway is steady cost pressure rather than a dramatic swing. Gas is a little softer than yesterday, which helps at the margin. Diesel is still expensive enough to matter for service fleets, freight, job-site travel, and the kinds of businesses that pass fuel costs into prices elsewhere in the local economy.
Creve Coeur sits in the St. Louis Metropolitan Region, so the metro benchmark is the most useful local reference here rather than a city-only pump average. If the next AAA check keeps today’s pattern going, regular gas could stay a touch easier on drivers. If diesel keeps rising, that will remain the bigger watch item for business owners and anyone who depends on a truck or van every day.
Readers: what are you seeing at the pump in and around Creve Coeur? Share the highest and lowest local prices you’re finding for regular gas and diesel.
