Average retail prices for regular gasoline and diesel across the US, its regions, ten surveyed states and ten major metros — straight from the federal weekly survey.
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These are survey averages, not the price at the pump down the road. Every Monday the Energy Information Administration collects prices from a sample of retail outlets and publishes an average for each area it covers. That makes the figures authoritative and consistent over time, and it also means two things worth understanding before you use them.
First, they lag. The price shown is for the survey date at the top of the table, not this morning. When the market is moving quickly, the real price at your local station can be ten or fifteen cents away from the published average in either direction.
Second, an average hides an enormous spread. Within any state, stations on an interstate exit charge substantially more than the same brand two miles into town, and a warehouse club can sit well below both. The average tells you what the market is doing; it does not tell you what you will pay.
A single price in isolation means very little, because nobody remembers what they paid six weeks ago. The change columns are where the information is. A rise of two or three cents is ordinary noise. A move of fifteen or twenty cents in one week means something specific has happened — a refinery outage, a hurricane in the Gulf, or the seasonal blend changeover — and it usually keeps moving in that direction for a few weeks before settling.
The year-over-year column strips out seasonality entirely, which is what makes it the honest measure of whether fuel is actually more expensive than it was.
The gap is structural rather than temporary. California requires its own cleaner-burning gasoline blend that almost no refinery outside the state produces, so when a California refinery goes down there is no easy way to import a replacement. Add the highest state fuel taxes in the country, cap-and-trade and low-carbon fuel program costs, and a refining sector with very little spare capacity, and the result is a market that runs at a persistent premium and spikes harder than anywhere else when something breaks.
The Gulf Coast sits at the opposite end for the mirror-image reason: it is where the refineries are.
Prices almost always rise from late winter into early summer and fall back through autumn. Two things drive it. Refineries shut down for maintenance in late winter, tightening supply just as the switch to summer-blend gasoline — which is more expensive to produce and required in much of the country from roughly May through September — takes effect. Demand then peaks over the summer driving season.
The reversal in September and October, when winter blend returns and demand falls off, is the most reliable seasonal decline in the calendar. If you are trying to judge whether a price move is meaningful, compare it to the same week last year rather than to last month.
It is not a station-price finder. Station-level prices come from crowdsourced apps, and no free, licensed feed of them exists to build on — so rather than publish something unreliable, this page uses the official survey data and is clear about what that is. For the price at a specific pump right now, use a dedicated app. For understanding what the market is doing and whether today's price is actually unusual, the survey data is better than crowdsourced spot prices, because it is consistent and it goes back decades.
If you want to spend less on fuel rather than just track it, the gas and food savings page covers what actually moves the number — driving style is worth more than any app — and the gas vs EV cost calculator works out what your own vehicle costs per mile at these prices.
Weekly. EIA runs its survey on Mondays and publishes shortly after, and this page refreshes on the same cycle. The survey date is shown under the table — if that date is more than about ten days old, the refresh has failed and the figures are stale.
EIA publishes weekly averages for ten individual states and ten metro areas, not all fifty states. It is a sample survey, and expanding it to every state would cost more than the data is worth to the agency. If your state is missing, the regional row that covers it is the closest official figure available.
Because this is an average across a sample of outlets, measured on a specific day. Individual stations vary by thirty cents or more within the same metro, and the survey date is a few days behind today. Use this to see what the market is doing, not to predict what a specific pump will charge.
The US Energy Information Administration's weekly retail gasoline and diesel price survey, accessed through EIA's public API. It is the same series that news coverage of gas prices cites. Nothing here is estimated or modeled — the numbers are EIA's.
A required state-specific cleaner-burning blend that few outside refineries produce, the highest state fuel taxes in the country, carbon program costs, and very little spare refining capacity. When a California refinery goes offline there is no quick way to import a substitute, so the state runs at a structural premium and spikes harder than anywhere else.
Yes, and it is one of the more reliable patterns in commodity prices. Refinery maintenance in late winter plus the switch to more expensive summer-blend gasoline pushes prices up into early summer; the return to winter blend and falling demand pulls them down through autumn. Compare to the same week last year rather than to last month.
Diesel competes with heating oil and jet fuel for the same part of the barrel, so its price responds to winter heating demand and global distillate markets rather than to US driving season. It also carries a higher federal excise tax. The two prices can move independently for months.
Not here. Station-level pricing is crowdsourced and only available through the apps that collect it; there is no free licensed feed to build on. This page deliberately uses official survey data instead, and says so rather than presenting something less reliable as live local pricing.
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