State fuel market
Weekly average from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, week of September 14, 2026. Below: where this sits in its 52-week range, what the price is made of, and what actually moves this market.
WTI crude has risen $15.03/bbl over the past month. Retail gasoline typically follows crude moves with a 2–4 week lag as refined fuel works through the supply chain.
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Ranked by pump price. Click a region to view its dashboard.
| # | Region | Regular ↑ | vs others | vs last wk | Mid | Prem | Diesel |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ↓ | Texas | $3.806 | +0.188 | $4.30 | $4.65 | — | |
| 2 | Gulf Coast (PADD 3) | $3.852 | +0.167 | $4.36 | $4.70 | $6.03 | |
| 3 | Lower Atlantic (PADD 1C) | $4.041 | +0.181 | $4.51 | $4.87 | $6.10 | |
| 4 | Midwest (PADD 2) | $4.091 | +0.197 | $4.58 | $5.18 | $6.25 | |
| 5 | Florida | $4.102 | +0.242 | $4.56 | $4.86 | — | |
| 6 | Ohio | $4.147 | +0.262 | $4.71 | $5.26 | — | |
| 7 | East Coast (PADD 1) | $4.191 | +0.160 | $4.69 | $5.07 | $6.16 | |
| 8 | Minnesota | $4.223 | +0.146 | $4.59 | $5.16 | — | |
| 9 | Colorado | $4.230 | +0.043 | $4.62 | $4.99 | — | |
| 10 | Massachusetts | $4.253 | +0.093 | $4.85 | $5.27 | — | |
| 11 | New England (PADD 1A) | $4.294 | +0.105 | $4.88 | $5.27 | $6.20 | |
| 12 | U.S. National Average | $4.319 | +0.162 | $4.92 | $5.32 | $6.29 | |
| 13 | New York | $4.339 | +0.079 | $4.86 | $5.29 | — | |
| 14 | Central Atlantic (PADD 1B) | $4.387 | +0.147 | $4.92 | $5.26 | $6.31 | |
| 15 | Rocky Mountain (PADD 4) | $4.438 | +0.124 | $4.77 | $5.12 | $6.07 | |
| 16 | West Coast excl. CA | $5.026 | +0.051 | $5.42 | $5.67 | $6.57 | |
| 17 | West Coast (PADD 5) | $5.467 | +0.105 | $5.88 | $6.08 | $7.25 | |
| 18 | Washington | $5.503 | +0.020 | $5.82 | $6.03 | — | |
| ↑ | Californiayou | $5.827 | +0.149 | $6.11 | $6.28 | $8.04 |
Our reading of the last 52 weeks of EIA data for this market. Updated when EIA publishes its weekly survey each Tuesday morning.
At $5.827 a gallon, California is near its most expensive point of the past year. The cheapest week of the last year was $3.977 in January 2026; the most expensive was $5.969 in May 2026. Over the past four weeks the price has moved up 8.0%, and up 4.9% over three months.
Week-to-week, this market is among the most volatile fuel markets in the US — prices vary by 13.5% around their own average, against a typical US regional figure of roughly 5–7%.
California is currently $1.508 above the national average. Its typical gap over the past year has been $1.426 above the nation, so the current gap is $0.082 wider than usual.
| Crude oil | $2.359 | 40% | WTI at $99.08 a barrel ÷ 42 gallons |
|---|---|---|---|
| Federal tax | $0.184 | 3% | 18.3¢ excise plus a 0.1¢ storage-tank fee, unchanged since 1993 |
| State excise tax | $0.634 | 11% | 1st highest total state burden in the US |
| Other state taxes & fees | $0.102 | 2% | 2.25% state sales tax on gasoline, 13.00% state sales tax on diesel (prepaid rates for these sales taxes: gasoline $0.0800/gal; diesel $0.4250/gal). |
| Everything else | $2.548 | 44% | refining, distribution and retail margin, plus the costs below |
Tax accounts for 16% of the pump price here — 92.0¢ a gallon, state and federal combined. Even that understates it: cap-and-trade allowance costs and Low Carbon Fuel Standard credit costs, which are embedded in the wholesale price rather than charged at the pump sit outside these figures and land in the “everything else” row, so treat that row as an upper bound on margin rather than a measure of it. See our methodology for how each row is derived.
Diesel is running at $8.039, a spread of $2.212 over regular. Diesel and home heating oil come off the same refinery stream, so that gap usually widens in winter.
California is its own fuel market — a unique gasoline recipe, no pipeline link to the rest of the country, and the heaviest tax and carbon burden in the US.
There is no pipeline carrying gasoline into California from Gulf Coast or Midwest refineries. Supply is in-state refining plus tanker imports, which take two to six weeks to arrive from Asia. That lag is the mechanical reason California spikes are so severe and so persistent.
California is losing refineries fast. Phillips 66 closed its 139,000 b/d Wilmington refinery in late 2025 and Valero shut the 145,000 b/d Benicia plant in April 2026 — together 17% of the state’s refining capacity inside twelve months, on top of the earlier Rodeo and Martinez conversions to renewable fuels. Around eleven refineries remain, and EIA expects the closures to push West Coast retail prices up even as national prices ease.
California requires CARB reformulated gasoline (CaRFG), a specification meaningfully stricter than federal RFG. Very few refineries outside the state are configured to make it, so even when fuel is abundant nationally it may be unavailable to California at any reasonable price.
Refinery maintenance announcements and unplanned outages. In a market this tight, one plant going down is enough to move the statewide average within a week.