U.S. Retail Fuel Prices

Weekly diesel and gasoline price intelligence, sourced from the EIA-888 (on-highway diesel) and EIA-878 (motor gasoline) retail surveys. Survey aggregates — not station-level data.
Retail Prices Weekly retail prices from EIA Form 878 (gasoline, ~900 outlets) and Form 888 (on-highway diesel, ~590 outlets). Released Mondays after 5 PM ET. Survey aggregates — not station-level data. Updated weekly · EIA 878 + 888
  • EIA · Gasoline

    U.S. Regular Gasoline

    $4.465 /gal

    ▼ 1¢ WoW ▲ +$1.35 YoY

    Week ending 2026-09-28

  • EIA · Diesel

    U.S. Diesel ULSD

    $6.382 /gal

    ▼ $0.15 WoW ▲ +$2.63 YoY

    Week ending 2026-09-28

  • EIA · Gasoline

    California Gasoline

    $6.189 /gal

    ▲ +$0.19 WoW ▲ +$1.74 YoY

    Week ending 2026-09-28

  • EIA · Diesel

    California Diesel

    $8.181 /gal

    ▼ 7¢ WoW ▲ +$3.20 YoY

    Week ending 2026-09-28

  • EIA Weekly Retail Prices

    U.S. National 52-Week Trend

    Regular Gasoline ULSD Diesel

Regional Breakdown by PADD

PADD 1 (East Coast)
Gas $4.29 $-0.18 vs U.S.
Diesel $6.14 $-0.25 vs U.S.
PADD 2 (Midwest)
Gas $4.29 $-0.17 vs U.S.
Diesel $6.53 +$0.14 vs U.S.
PADD 3 (Gulf Coast)
Gas $3.92 $-0.54 vs U.S.
Diesel $5.96 $-0.43 vs U.S.
PADD 4 (Rocky Mtn)
Gas $4.49 +$0.02 vs U.S.
Diesel $6.41 +$0.03 vs U.S.
PADD 5 (West Coast)
Gas $5.72 +$1.26 vs U.S.
Diesel $7.36 +$0.98 vs U.S.

State Movers (Regular Gasoline)

State Price WoW YoY
Ohio $4.26 ▼ $0.22 ▲ +$1.41
California $6.19 ▲ +$0.19 ▲ +$1.74
Colorado $4.09 ▼ $0.16 ▲ +$1.17
Texas $3.84 ▼ 9¢ ▲ +$1.19
Florida $4.28 ▲ +7¢ ▲ +$1.38
Washington $5.45 ▼ 6¢ ▲ +$1.00
Massachusetts $4.32 ▼ 3¢ ▲ +$1.31
Minnesota $4.32 ▼ 3¢ ▲ +$1.38
New York $4.41 ▼ 2¢ ▲ +$1.30

City Movers (Regular Gasoline)

City Price WoW YoY
San Francisco $6.27 ▲ +$0.20 ▲ +$1.84
Los Angeles $6.17 ▲ +$0.18 ▲ +$1.70
Denver $4.03 ▼ $0.18 ▲ +$1.15
Cleveland $4.33 ▼ $0.18 ▲ +$1.37
Chicago $4.76 ▼ $0.12 ▲ +$1.27
Boston $4.34 ▼ 5¢ ▲ +$1.31
Miami $4.30 ▲ +4¢ ▲ +$1.33
New York City $4.38 ▼ 3¢ ▲ +$1.34
Houston $3.85 ▼ 2¢ ▲ +$1.24
Seattle $5.68 ▼ 2¢ ▲ +$1.06

Latest data: week ending 2026-09-28 · Sources: EIA Form 878 (Motor Gasoline Price Survey) and EIA Form 888 (On-Highway Diesel Fuel Price Survey).

Pressure Index The TOE Retail Pressure Index (RPI-C) is a 0–100 composite — range position, seasonal Z-score, velocity and breadth measured against a 5-year baseline. Open the Pressure tab for the full breakdown. As of 2026-09-28
RPI-C · U.S. Regular Gasoline80.8/100Severe PressureRPI-C · WoW change-7.4ptsvs prior weekZSI · U.S. Regular Gasoline+3.41σ Z-score vs 5-yr same-weekRPI-C · U.S. Diesel ULSD89.1/100Severe PressureRPI-C · WoW change-10.4ptsvs prior weekZSI · U.S. Diesel ULSD+4.16σ Z-score vs 5-yr same-week

California

Coming next

California gasoline and diesel as separate indices, with the premium over the national average.

Grade Spread

Coming next

Premium-minus-regular gasoline spread.

News

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Retail and fuel-market headlines.

Diesel ULSD Regular Gasoline
Pressure Index As of 2026-09-28
TOE RPI · Diesel ULSD · National

Composite Retail Pressure Index (RPI-C)

89.1/100
Severe Pressure
-10.4 pts vs prior week
RPI · Range Position95.2/100Position in the 5-year range
ZSI · Z-Score Stress+4.16σ vs 5-yr same-week mean
VI · Velocity+10.95%Weighted WoW / MoM / QoQ
BI · Breadth1/5PADDs rising (national)
Velocity & Acceleration Velocity (VI) is the weighted speed of price change; Acceleration (AI) is its week-over-week change — it flags a regime shift before VI alone does. VI = 0.5·WoW + 0.3·MoM(4w) + 0.2·QoQ(12w); AI = VI(w) − VI(w−1).
EIA · Diesel ULSD

Velocity Index (VI)

+11.0% Decelerating

Diesel ULSD velocity eased from +14.6% last week to +11.0% this week — the trend is decelerating.

VI = 0.5·WoW + 0.3·MoM(4w) + 0.2·QoQ(12w) · AI = VI(w) − VI(w−1)

WoW-2.25%
MoM · 4w+13.98%
QoQ · 12w+39.41%
Acceleration (AI) Week-over-week change in velocity — green easing, red building.
Historical Context Where the current price sits in its 5-year range, how it compares to the same week in prior years, and the last time prices were at this level.
5-year price range Current $6.382 · RPI 95
$3.451 · Jun 2, 2025 $6.529 · Sep 21, 2026
Same week, across years
2021 $3.48
2022 $4.84
2023 $4.59
2024 $3.54
2025 $3.75
2026 $6.38

5-yr same-week μ $4.041 · σ $0.563

vs 1 year ago +$2.63 +70%
vs 5 years ago +$2.91 +83.5%
Historical anchor

Comparable price levels were last seen around Jun 20, 2022 ($5.810/gal) — 2022 Russia / Ukraine Spike.

Breadth & Geography How many of the five PADD regions are rising week-over-week (the Breadth Index), and the direction of each region. Broad moves are more significant than a single-region swing.
Regular Gasoline 2/5 PADDs rising · 3 falling, 0 flat — mixed — gains and declines split across regions.
Diesel ULSD 1/5 PADDs rising · 4 falling, 0 flat — mostly falling — the easing is broad, not regional.
PADD region Gasoline Diesel
PADD 1 · East Coast +0.5¢up-13.1¢down
PADD 2 · Midwest -9.5¢down-15.4¢down
PADD 3 · Gulf Coast -4.8¢down-22.2¢down
PADD 4 · Rocky Mtn -2.4¢down+6.7¢up
PADD 5 · West Coast +12.4¢up-9.9¢down
Fuel Surcharge Calculator Estimate a fuel surcharge from the current EIA on-highway diesel average. Per-mile (FTL) uses a stepped peg table (the OOIDA convention) or a continuous formula; percent-of-linehaul (LTL) maps the diesel price to a band. Your base price and table are contract-specific.

Current EIA ULSD: $6.382/gal · week of Sep 28, effective Sep 30–Oct 6

Peg (OOIDA default)

Your base price and table are defined by your carrier contract. Using the wrong base produces incorrect surcharge values.

Pegged · recommended $0.0000/mi Trip total $0.00
Continuous $0.0000/mi Trip total $0.00

Diesel premium over base: 0.0¢/gal

Source: EIA Form 888 on-highway diesel weekly survey (the "DOE National Average").

Retail Pressure Heat Map State-level Retail Pressure Index (RPI-C). States with their own EIA series use it directly; the rest inherit their PADD region's value. Color shows pressure, not absolute price — so it is comparable across regions.
RPI-C zones 0–20 Very Low 20–40 Low 40–60 Moderate 60–80 Elevated 80–100 Severe
Methodology How every number on this dashboard is sourced and computed — and how the index was validated against historical fuel-price regimes. RPI-C v1

The TOE Retail Pressure Index (RPI-C) turns weekly EIA retail fuel prices into a single 0–100 reading of how much upward (or downward) pressure a fuel is under — relative to its own recent history, not its absolute price. It blends four independent signals so that no single quirk (a seasonal pattern, a one-week spike, an isolated regional move) dominates the picture.

Data sources

EIA Form 878 — Motor Gasoline
Weekly retail regular gasoline survey (~900 outlets). National, regional (PADD) and California series.
EIA Form 888 — On-Highway Diesel
Weekly retail on-highway diesel (ULSD) survey (~590 outlets). National, PADD and California series.
Release cadence
Both surveys publish Mondays after 5:00 PM ET (the prior Monday's pricing). A federal-holiday Monday delays the release a day.
PADD regions
The five Petroleum Administration for Defense Districts (PADD 1 East Coast … PADD 5 West Coast) are the geographic backbone for the Breadth Index and the state heat map.
What it is not
These are survey aggregates, not station-level transaction prices. The Pressure Index measures relative pressure, not absolute cost — so a low-price region can still read high pressure.

The RPI-C index family

Four component indices feed the composite. Each is computed per fuel from the stored weekly observations; each is shown on the Pressure tab alongside the headline.

RPI Range Position Index 0–100

Where today's price sits within its own 5-year trailing range.

100 · (p − min) / (max − min)

e.g. If the 5-yr window runs $2.00–$6.00 and today is $4.00, RPI = 100·(4−2)/(6−2) = 50.

ZSI Seasonal Z-Score Index σ units (normalized 0–100)

How unusual the price is for this specific week of the year, vs the same week in prior years.

z = (p − μ) / σ over the same calendar week, 5 yr (min 3)

e.g. A reading 2σ above the same-week mean → z = +2.0, which normalizes to ≈ 88 / 100.

VI Velocity Index signed % (normalized 0–100)

How fast the price is moving, blending short-, medium- and longer-horizon momentum.

0.5·WoW% + 0.3·4wk% + 0.2·12wk%

e.g. +10% WoW, +5% 4-wk, 0% 12-wk → VI = 0.5·10 + 0.3·5 + 0.2·0 = 6.5%.

AI Acceleration Index signed Δ

Whether velocity itself is building or fading — the change in VI week over week.

AI = VI(this week) − VI(prior week)

e.g. VI rising from 4.0% to 6.5% → AI = +2.5 (pressure is accelerating).

BI Breadth Index 0–1 (×100)

How widespread the move is across the five PADD regions — broad moves carry more weight than isolated ones.

share of the 5 PADDs rising week over week

e.g. 4 of 5 PADDs rising → BI = 0.80, i.e. 80 / 100 normalized.

The composite and its zones

The headline RPI-C is a weighted blend. Range position carries the most weight (it is the most stable); the z-score and velocity are normalized to 0–100 via a logistic curve before weighting, and breadth contributes a final tempering factor.

RPI-C = 0.40·RPI + 0.25·norm(ZSI) + 0.25·norm(VI) + 0.10·norm(BI)

where norm(ZSI) = 100 / (1 + e^−z), norm(VI) = 100 / (1 + e^(−v/3)), and norm(BI) = 100·BI.

Worked example A perfectly neutral week — price mid-range (RPI = 50), on its seasonal norm (z = 0 → 50), flat (VI = 0 → 50), mixed breadth (BI = 0.5 → 50) — gives RPI-C = 0.40·50 + 0.25·50 + 0.25·50 + 0.10·50 = 50.0, the centre of the Moderate zone.

Validation back-test

Before going live, RPI-C is back-tested against seven seeded historical fuel-price regimes. The standard: every event must land within one zone band of its expected reading (none two or more bands off), and the 2022 Russia/Ukraine peak must read Severe (≥ 80). This pins the methodology to known outcomes and guards against silent drift after a data refresh.

PASS 4/7 exact-zone 1 max bands off Russia/Ukraine ≥ 80: yes COVID ≤ 20: no
Regime event Headline date Expected Observed RPI-C Within band
2008 Financial Crisis Fuel Collapse 2008-07-14 Severe Pressure Severe Pressure 94.2 ✓ exact
2011 Libya / Arab Spring Spike 2011-05-09 Severe Pressure Elevated Pressure 70.0 ✓ ±1
2014–2016 Oil Bust 2016-02-15 Very Low Pressure Very Low Pressure 3.3 ✓ exact
2020 COVID Demand Collapse 2020-05-04 Very Low Pressure Low Pressure 20.7 ✓ ±1
2021–2022 Post-COVID Surge 2021-11-15 Elevated Pressure Severe Pressure 85.5 ✓ ±1
2022 Russia / Ukraine Spike 2022-06-20 Severe Pressure Severe Pressure 95.4 ✓ exact
2026 Spring Event 2026-05-04 Severe Pressure Severe Pressure 93.8 ✓ exact

Pre-2012 events evaluate against the all-types diesel series (history to 1994); the ULSD 5-year trailing window is too thin before ~2012 (retail ULSD begins 2007). Same-week ZSI absorbs sustained regimes into its own baseline, so the z-score component can read modestly at a prolonged peak even when the composite is correctly Severe. Validation currently covers U.S. national diesel.

Glossary

RPI-C
Retail Pressure Index (Composite) — the 0–100 headline blending range position, seasonal z-score, velocity and breadth.
PADD
Petroleum Administration for Defense District — five U.S. regions the EIA reports fuel data by.
ULSD
Ultra-Low-Sulfur Diesel — the standard on-highway diesel grade reported by EIA Form 888.
Z-score
The number of standard deviations a value sits from its mean; the basis of the ZSI.
Zone
The five RPI-C bands: Very Low (0–20), Low (20–40), Moderate (40–60), Elevated (60–80), Severe (80–100).

RPI-C v1 — composite weighted 0.40 RPI · 0.25 ZSI · 0.25 VI · 0.10 BI; velocity weighted 0.5 / 0.3 / 0.2 across 1 / 4 / 12 weeks.