EIA Weekly On-Highway Diesel Survey - week of October 26, 2026
Diesel cost per gallon in North Carolina
What readers paid for diesel in North Carolina
Prices readers report from the pump: what they paid, where, and how they paid. Each one is a single fill on the date shown, not a survey average; the weekly EIA figures elsewhere on this page are the survey.
No reader has reported a price in North Carolina yet. Yours would be the first.
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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 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 $5.890 per gallon in the week of October 26, 2026 (series EMD_EPD2D_PTE_R1Z_DPG), $0.46 below the US average of $6.352. Pump prices inside the district vary around that figure.
Diesel tax breakdown
Interstate trucks (IFTA): 41.0c a gallon for October to December 2026.
1 January to 31 December 2026; reset each 1 January.
Checked 22 October 2026 against NCDOR, Temporary Suspension of Motor Fuel Excise Tax (12 October 2026) and NCDOR, Motor Fuels Tax Rates. Local and county taxes are not included. 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.
Off-road (dyed) diesel in North Carolina
Red-dyed diesel is the same fuel as clear diesel, sold without highway fuel taxes for uses off the public road. How North Carolina treats it, checked 25 October 2026. Rules for every state are on the off-road diesel guide.
Sources: NCDOR, Temporary Suspension of Motor Fuel Excise Tax and Dyed Diesel Enforcement; NCDOR, Dyed Diesel Notice (1 October 2026). This is a summary, not legal or tax advice.
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.
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