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School districts avoid diesel price spike by pre-war wholesale fuel orders

Westmoreland County school districts that participated in a joint fuel purchasing consortium had great timing this school year. The schools buy wholesale diesel to fill the tanks of their student buses, and that price had dropped in January to about its lowest level of 2026, according to a Federal Reserve

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