Menu
Crude oil, gasoline, heating oil, diesel, propane, and other liquids including biofuels and natural gas liquids.
Exploration and reserves, storage, imports and exports, production, prices, sales.
Sales, revenue and prices, power plants, fuel use, stocks, generation, trade, demand & emissions.
Energy use in homes, commercial buildings, manufacturing, and transportation.
Reserves, production, prices, employment and productivity, distribution, stocks, imports and exports.
Includes hydropower, solar, wind, geothermal, biomass and ethanol.
Uranium fuel, nuclear reactors, generation, spent fuel.
Comprehensive data summaries, comparisons, analysis, and projections integrated across all energy sources.
Monthly and yearly energy forecasts, analysis of energy topics, financial analysis, congressional reports.
Financial market analysis and financial data for major energy companies.
Greenhouse gas data, voluntary reporting, electric power plant emissions.
Maps, tools, and resources related to energy disruptions and infrastructure.
State energy information, including overviews, rankings, data, and analyses.
Maps by energy source and topic, includes forecast maps.
International energy information, including overviews, rankings, data, and analyses.
Regional energy information including dashboards, maps, data, and analyses.
Tools to customize searches, view specific data sets, study detailed documentation, and access time-series data.
EIA's free and open data available as API, Excel add-in, bulk files, and widgets
Come test out some of the products still in development and let us know what you think!
EIA's open source code, available on GitHub.
Forms EIA uses to collect energy data including descriptions, links to survey instructions, and additional information.
Sign up for email subscriptions to receive messages about specific EIA products
Subscribe to feeds for updates on EIA products including Today in Energy and What's New.
Short, timely articles with graphics on energy, facts, issues, and trends.
Lesson plans, science fair experiments, field trips, teacher guide, and career corner.
The cost of producing and delivering diesel fuel to consumers includes the costs of crude oil, refinery processing, marketing and distribution, and retail station operation. The retail pump price reflects the costs and the profits (and sometimes losses) of the refiners, marketers, distributors, and retail station owners. The relative share of these cost components to the retail price of diesel fuel varies over time and varies among regions of the country.
The retail price at the pump also includes federal, state, and local taxes. The federal excise tax for on-highway diesel fuel is 24.30 cents per gallon, and the federal Leaking Underground Storage Tank fee is 0.1 cents per gallon. As of January 1, 2024, the average for total state taxes and fees for on-highway diesel fuel was 34.74 cents per gallon. Sales taxes, along with local and municipal government taxes, also contribute to the final selling price of diesel fuel. Local market conditions and factors such as the location of the fueling station can also affect retail diesel fuel prices. Some retail outlets are owned and operated by refiners, and others are independent businesses that purchase diesel fuel for resale to the public.
Before 2004, the average price of diesel fuel was often lower than the average price of regular gasoline. In some winters when the demand for distillate heating oil was high, the diesel price rose above the gasoline price. Since September 2004, the price of diesel has been generally higher than the price of regular-grade gasoline throughout the year for several reasons. Worldwide demand for diesel and other distillate fuel oils steadily increased, with strong demand in China, Europe, and the United States. In the United States, the transition to ultra-low-sulfur diesel (ULSD) fuel affected diesel fuel production and distribution costs. In addition, the federal excise tax on diesel fuel is 6 cents higher per gallon than the federal excise tax on regular-grade gasoline.
To view recent diesel fuel prices and forecasts for diesel fuel prices, visit the Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Update and the Short-Term Energy Outlook .
Last updated: September 5, 2024.
