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Updated April 19, 2024 at 7:00 AM. At the time of writing, the national average price of regular gas is $3.62 per gallon, $0.02 higher than this time last year. Drivers who use premium gas are ...
The United States federal excise tax on gasoline is 18.4 cents per gallon and 24.4 cents per gallon for diesel fuel. [1][2] Proceeds from the tax partly support the Highway Trust Fund. The federal tax was last raised on October 1, 1993, and is not indexed to inflation, which increased 111% from Oct. 1993 until Dec. 2023.
The average price of regular gasoline rose from $1.773 during the week of April 27, 2020, to $5 as of June 11, 2022, an all-time high. [37] California led the nation in gas prices with an average gallon of regular gas in the state reaching $6.43 as of June 11, 2022. [38]
As of Wednesday, the national average price for regular gasoline stood at $3.25 a gallon, down 19 cents from a month ago and 58 cents from a year ago, according to data from motorist association AAA.
The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline spiked 33 cents over the past two weeks to $4.71 per gallon. Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lundberg Survey said Sunday that the price ...
Energy in the United States is obtained from a diverse portfolio of sources, although the majority came from fossil fuels in 2021, as 36% of the nation's energy originated from petroleum, 32% from natural gas, and 11% from coal. Electricity from nuclear power supplied 8% and renewable energy supplied 12%, which includes biomass, wind, hydro ...
On average, as of July 2016, state and local taxes add 29.78 cents to gasoline and 29.81 cents to diesel for a total US average fuel tax of 48.18 cents per US gallon (12.73 ¢/L) for gas and 54.21 cents per US gallon (14.32 ¢/L) for diesel.
Retail prices follow the trend in wholesale gasoline futures, which have been falling at a more accelerated rate than retail prices. Average U.S. retail gasoline price falls below $4.50 a gallon - AAA