EIA Weekly On-Highway Diesel Survey - week of August 31, 2026
Diesel cost per gallon in North Carolina
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 North Carolina. The number above is Lower Atlantic (PADD 1C), series EMD_EPD2D_PTE_R1Z_DPG, and it is the closest published federal figure for North Carolina. We do not estimate a price for North Carolina from it. 3 of North Carolina'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 North Carolina. The federal survey prices the district North Carolina sits in, Lower Atlantic (PADD 1C), at $5.276 per gallon in the week of August 31, 2026 (series EMD_EPD2D_PTE_R1Z_DPG), $0.32 below the US average of $5.599. Pump prices inside the district vary around that figure.
Diesel tax breakdown
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 North Carolina is surveyed directly.
Neighbouring states
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.
What shapes the diesel price in North Carolina
North Carolina sits on the I-95 freight corridor, one of the highest-volume truck routes in the country, and carries a state diesel tax above 40 cents. Charlotte and Greensboro are major distribution centres. Supply comes via Colonial Pipeline from the Gulf Coast plus product from the Philadelphia and New Jersey refinery complex. The I-85 corridor between Charlotte and Durham is among the most-travelled diesel routes in the Southeast.
The trip calculator starts at $5.28/gal, the EIA figure above. Change it to the price you actually see at the pump for a real answer.