Regional fuel market
Weekly average from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, week of November 2, 2026. Below: where this sits in its 52-week range, what the price is made of, and what actually moves this market.
The EIA reports this region as PADD 1, one of five districts it uses for fuel data.
The U.S. oil price has risen $13.60 a barrel over the past month. Gas prices usually catch up within 2 to 4 weeks, as fuel made from that oil reaches stations.
Our reading of the last 52 weeks of EIA data for this market. Updated when EIA publishes its weekly survey each Tuesday morning.
At $3.936 a gallon, East Coast is in the middle of its past-year range. The cheapest week of the last year was $2.741 in January 2026; the most expensive was $4.336 in May 2026. Over the past four weeks the price has moved down 5.1%, and down 0.2% over three months.
Week-to-week, this market is among the most volatile fuel markets in the US — prices vary by 15.5% around their own average, against a typical US regional figure of roughly 5–7%.
East Coast is currently $0.217 below the national average. Its typical gap over the past year has been $0.127 below the nation, so the current gap is $0.090 narrower than usual.
Ranked by pump price. Click a region to view its dashboard.
| # | Region | Regular ↑ | vs others | vs last wk | Mid | Prem | Diesel |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ↓ | Texas | $3.578 | -0.054 | $4.10 | $4.44 | — | |
| 2 | Gulf Coast | $3.636 | -0.066 | $4.17 | $4.51 | $5.91 | |
| 3 | Lower Atlantic | $3.695 | -0.137 | $4.19 | $4.57 | $5.81 | |
| 4 | Florida | $3.791 | -0.226 | $4.27 | $4.60 | — | |
| 5 | East Coastyou | $3.936 | -0.086 | $4.45 | $4.85 | $6.03 | |
| 6 | Minnesota | $4.017 | -0.129 | $4.39 | $4.97 | — | |
| 7 | Colorado | $4.068 | -0.390 | $4.46 | $4.83 | — | |
| 8 | Ohio | $4.090 | -0.290 | $4.67 | $5.26 | — | |
| 9 | Midwest | $4.102 | -0.167 | $4.58 | $5.20 | $6.40 | |
| 10 | Massachusetts | $4.104 | -0.041 | $4.75 | $5.14 | — | |
| 11 | New England | $4.145 | -0.054 | $4.79 | $5.16 | $6.42 | |
| 12 | U.S. National Average | $4.153 | -0.116 | $4.76 | $5.16 | $6.29 | |
| 13 | Rocky Mountain | $4.213 | -0.245 | $4.57 | $4.89 | $6.45 | |
| 14 | New York | $4.217 | -0.032 | $4.73 | $5.15 | — | |
| 15 | Central Atlantic | $4.232 | -0.019 | $4.75 | $5.11 | $6.49 | |
| 16 | West Coast outside California | $4.771 | -0.097 | $5.19 | $5.43 | $6.58 | |
| 17 | Washington | $5.095 | -0.108 | $5.42 | $5.63 | — | |
| 18 | West Coast | $5.296 | -0.121 | $5.77 | $5.94 | $7.27 | |
| ↑ | California | $5.748 | -0.140 | $6.07 | $6.20 | $8.08 |
Gasoline is made from crude oil, so oil prices lead pump prices by a few weeks. Prices are in dollars per barrel (42 gallons). Traders call the U.S. price WTI and the world price Brent.
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| Crude oil | $2.552 | 65% | U.S. oil (WTI) at $107.17 a barrel ÷ 42 gallons |
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Tax is not broken out for multi-state regions because each state within East Coast sets its own rate. See our state gas tax comparison for every rate in the country.
Diesel is running at $6.025, a spread of $2.089 over regular. Diesel and home heating oil come off the same refinery stream, so that gap usually widens in winter.
The East Coast consumes far more fuel than it refines, so it is structurally a pipeline-and-import market rather than a producing one.
Most of the region’s gasoline arrives via the Colonial Pipeline from Gulf Coast refineries, supplemented by waterborne imports into New York Harbor. That dependence is why a Gulf Coast hurricane or a Colonial outage shows up at East Coast pumps within days.
Refining is concentrated in the Philadelphia area and Delaware. The 2019 closure of Philadelphia Energy Solutions after a fire and explosion removed 335,000 barrels per day — roughly a quarter of the region’s capacity, and the largest refinery on the East Coast — leaving seven operating refineries and about 889,000 b/d. The East Coast has run short of local refining ever since.
Most major metro areas from Washington northward require reformulated gasoline (RFG) in summer, which is more expensive to produce and cannot be substituted with conventional product from elsewhere.
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