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Diesel prices hit record highs amid geopolitical tensions

Rank
Ran: 37h
Updated: 3d ago
Closed
Outlets: 3
Regions: 2
Countries: 3
Languages: 2

Bloomberg United States · English 1 Oct, 09:00 UTC

The earliest of 2 English reports

Read it also in Português (1)

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How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Bloomberg, 1 Oct, 09:00 UTC.
Second country: United Kingdom, with The Guardian.
Second region: Europe, with The Guardian.
Last article: 3 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 3 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

67%33%

Americas 2 outlets · 2 countries · 67%
Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 33%

First movers

Bloomberg 1 Oct, 09:00 UTC
The Guardian +25h 20m
Poder360 +38h 5m

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: UK diesel prices hit all-time record high, 28 to 29 Sept 2026, 16 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 3 outlets in 3 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 3 outlets, 3 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 2: Brazil, United States. Europe 1: United Kingdom. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: English, Portuguese.
Timeline: Earliest article Bloomberg, 1 Oct 2026, 09:00 UTC. First seen 1 Oct 2026, 09:20 UTC. Last seen 2 Oct 2026, 23:05 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region International. Topic Energy. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain: Continues UK diesel prices hit all-time record high. Continued by «Trump nous a détruits» : face à la hausse du diesel, la colère des camionneurs américains menace de faire tache d’huile aux midterms; Oil worker strike threatens to severely disrupt Britain’s fuel supply. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.

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Started 1 Oct, 09:20 UTC · Updated 2 Oct, 23:05 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 3 outlets

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Americas 2 outlets

Poder360 Brazil 2 Oct, 23:05 UTC
Preço do diesel dispara na reta final do 1º turno
Bloomberg United States 1 Oct, 09:00 UTC
Diesel Prices at Record Highs in the US as Iran War Hits Seventh Month

Europe 1 outlet

The Guardian United Kingdom 2 Oct, 10:20 UTC
UK diesel price hits record high of £2 a litre