Across the United States regular self-service gasoline now averages $4.331 per gallon, while diesel is sitting at $6.179 per gallon as of 2026-10-19.
Prices moved modestly lower over the past seven days: gasoline is down -0.53% from a previous-week average of 4.354 USD, and diesel declined -0.32%. Gasoline has now fallen for 3 consecutive weeks.
The national picture hides wide state variation. On the expensive end California posts the highest average at 6.104 USD, Chicago registers 4.695 USD and New York comes in at 4.353 USD. At the other extreme Texas averages 3.779 USD, Ohio 3.870 USD and Florida 3.982 USD. Over the last 11 weeks gasoline has ranged between a low of 4.006 USD and a high of 4.478 USD, and the 11-week change versus the oldest week in that window is 6.18%.
This report uses U.S. Energy Information Administration data and notes the diesel–petrol spread is 1.848 USD per gallon; figures above are national averages reported by the EIA.
