Fuel

Two years

The five districts, side by side

This week

Every region

Region	Price	Week	Year
National average	$6.529	▲ 3.88%	74.2%
East Coast (PADD 1)	$6.268	▲ 1.79%	67.4%
New England (PADD 1A)	$6.517	▲ 5.08%	64.5%
Central Atlantic (PADD 1B)	$6.546	▲ 3.71%	67.5%
Lower Atlantic (PADD 1C)	$6.139	▲ 0.71%	67.5%
Midwest (PADD 2)	$6.680	▲ 6.88%	79.0%
Gulf Coast (PADD 3)	$6.177	▲ 2.49%	81.7%
Rocky Mountain (PADD 4)	$6.340	▲ 4.52%	69.2%
West Coast (PADD 5)	$7.456	▲ 2.84%	64.8%
California	$8.246	▲ 2.57%	65.4%
West Coast excl. California	$6.791	▲ 3.43%	64.7%

A retail pump average including taxes. Fleets buying on contract at truck stops generally pay less than this, and the gap widens when prices move quickly.

Five years

The national average, in context

From the desk

Fuel coverage

• Data brief Diesel rose to $6.529 a gallon 21 Sep
• Roundup Reefer holds at $4.11 a mile as diesel climbs 6.6% and FedEx buys into Europe 18 Sep
• Roundup Fuel-card refunds, record diesel and two carrier failures lead the freight week 18 Sep
• Roundup Wildfire shuts a western interstate as import rates spike and factories cool 18 Sep
• Roundup Rates firm across the box, but a record diesel week eats into August's raise 18 Sep
• Roundup Tender rejections climb and capacity thins as carriers gain rate leverage 18 Sep
• Roundup A fuel-hauler HOS waiver and a reopened border lead the freight week 18 Sep
• Roundup Truckload rates firm into peak as flatbed slips and the border churns 17 Sep
• Roundup Capacity tightens into an early peak as diesel climbs 6.6% in a week 17 Sep
• Roundup Rates firm and capacity thins, but diesel keeps climbing 17 Sep

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Fuel tax

What each state charges on a gallon

The pump prices above already include tax. This is how much of it is tax, state by state — the figure behind a quarterly fuel tax filing, and the reason the same gallon costs differently either side of a state line. Federal tax adds 24.4¢ a gallon on top of every one of these.

Source: U.S. Federal Highway Administration, Table MF-121T, 2024 reporting period. Read the date beside each rate. This is a federal annual table, published about a year after the period it covers, so a state that has moved since will still show its older figure — which is why every rate here carries the day it took effect rather than being presented as today's. U.S. states only. This is not a filing. Fuel tax is settled quarterly with your base jurisdiction against the IFTA rate matrix, which is IFTA, Inc.'s own publication and not reproduced here.

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