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DIESELCOST

EIA Weekly On-Highway Diesel Survey - week of October 12, 2026

Diesel cost per gallon in Maine

$6.44/GAL
+0.26 vs US average ($6.18)EIA New England (PADD 1A)District #6 of 9

What readers paid for diesel in Maine

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Read this as a district figure, not a state figure. The EIA weekly on-highway diesel survey prices the United States, its districts and California, and nothing else. It does not price Maine. The number above is New England (PADD 1A), series EMD_EPD2D_PTE_R1X_DPG, and it is the closest published federal figure for Maine. We do not estimate a price for Maine from it. 1 of Maine's neighbouring states sit in the same district and therefore show the same price below.

EIA does not publish a weekly on-highway diesel price for Maine. The federal survey prices the district Maine sits in, New England (PADD 1A), at $6.441 per gallon in the week of October 12, 2026 (series EMD_EPD2D_PTE_R1X_DPG), $0.26 above the US average of $6.179. Pump prices inside the district vary around that figure.

Diesel tax breakdown

Federal diesel excise tax24.4c/gal
Maine state diesel tax31.2c/gal
Total tax55.6c/gal
Tax as percent of the price above9%

Tax rates: Federation of Tax Administrators state motor fuel table and state revenue departments. Not EIA data. The percentage is against the EIA figure shown above, which is a district figure unless Maine is surveyed directly.

Neighbouring states

New Hampshire
same district$6.44

Neighbours in the same EIA district carry the same published figure. A matching price here means the federal survey shows no measured gap across that border, not that pumps are identical.

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Sources: price from the EIA Weekly On-Highway Diesel Fuel Price survey, week of October 12, 2026, series EMD_EPD2D_PTE_R1X_DPG, a U.S. Government work in the public domain. EIA publishes no diesel price for 49 of the 50 states on this site, California being the exception; those pages show the EIA district figure and say so. State tax from the Federation of Tax Administrators. Actual pump prices vary by retailer and location.
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