PADD 2 · Regional 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.
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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)you | $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 | — | |
| ↑ | California | $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 $4.091 a gallon, Midwest (PADD 2) is near its most expensive point of the past year. The cheapest week of the last year was $2.585 in January 2026; the most expensive was $4.405 in May 2026. Over the past four weeks the price has moved up 3.9%, and up 6.0% over three months.
Week-to-week, this market is among the most volatile fuel markets in the US — prices vary by 17.8% around their own average, against a typical US regional figure of roughly 5–7%.
Midwest (PADD 2) is currently $0.228 below the national average. Its typical gap over the past year has been $0.203 below the nation, so the current gap is $0.025 narrower than usual.
| Crude oil | $2.359 | 58% | WTI at $99.08 a barrel ÷ 42 gallons |
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Tax is not broken out for multi-state regions because each state within Midwest (PADD 2) sets its own rate. See our state gas tax comparison for every rate in the country.
Diesel is running at $6.250, a spread of $2.159 over regular. Diesel and home heating oil come off the same refinery stream, so that gap usually widens in winter.
The Midwest is landlocked, which means a refinery outage cannot be relieved by simply shipping in a cargo — and that produces the sharpest price spikes of any region.
Supply comes from refineries within the region plus pipelines running north from the Gulf Coast. Much of the crude feedstock is Canadian heavy crude arriving on the Enbridge Mainline, which usually trades at a discount and normally works in Midwest drivers' favour.
PADD 2 hosts large refineries in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Minnesota, Kansas and Oklahoma, including some of the biggest inland plants in the country at Whiting and Pine Bend.
Ethanol blending is near-universal and several states mandate it outright. Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Louis require reformulated gasoline in summer, creating small isolated sub-markets that can dislocate from the rest of the region.
Unplanned outages at the large inland refineries, Enbridge Mainline apportionment, and where the local price cycle currently sits.