Does the EIA publish a diesel price for South Carolina?

No. The EIA weekly on-highway diesel survey covers the United States, five PADDs, three PADD 1 sub-districts, West Coast less California, and California. South Carolina is not surveyed, so this page shows Lower Atlantic (PADD 1C) and labels it as a district figure.

What is the diesel tax in South Carolina?

South Carolina's state diesel tax is 28.75 cents per gallon. Combined with the federal diesel tax of 24.4 cents per gallon, the total tax on a gallon of diesel in South Carolina is 53.1 cents, or 9 percent of the price shown above. Tax rates are the state's own per-gallon taxes and fees, checked against its revenue department on 22 October 2026, not EIA data.

EIA Weekly On-Highway Diesel Survey - week of October 26, 2026

Diesel cost per gallon in South Carolina

$5.89/GAL

-0.46 vs US average ($6.35)EIA Lower Atlantic (PADD 1C)District #1 of 9

What readers paid for diesel in South 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 South 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 South Carolina. The number above is Lower Atlantic (PADD 1C), series EMD_EPD2D_PTE_R1Z_DPG, and it is the closest published federal figure for South Carolina. We do not estimate a price for South Carolina from it. 2 of South 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 South Carolina. The federal survey prices the district South 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

Motor fuel user fee28.0c/gal

Inspection fee0.25c/gal

Environmental impact fee0.5c/gal

South Carolina state taxes and fees28.75c/gal

Federal diesel excise tax24.4c/gal

Total per-gallon tax53.15c/gal

As a share of the price above9%

Sales tax: Exempt from sales tax.

Interstate trucks (IFTA): 28.0c a gallon for October to December 2026.

28c since 1 July 2022.

Checked 22 October 2026 against South Carolina DOR, Motor Fuel. Local and county taxes are not included. The percentage is against the EIA figure shown above, which is a district figure unless South Carolina is surveyed directly.

Neighbouring states

North Carolina

same district$5.89

Georgia

same district$5.89

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 South Carolina

Red-dyed diesel is the same fuel as clear diesel, sold without highway fuel taxes for uses off the public road. How South Carolina treats it, checked 25 October 2026. Rules for every state are on the off-road diesel guide.

Federal: dyed diesel skips the federal diesel tax except 0.1c. IRS news release IR-2026-122 (14 October 2026) waives federal penalties for highway use of dyed diesel from 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2026; state rules below still apply.

52.3ca gallon of per-gallon tax skipped: 24.3c federal and 28.0c South Carolina taxes and fees, though sales tax may apply instead (below).

South Carolina fuel tax on dyed diesel

Diesel used as heating oil, in trains or in equipment not licensed as a motor vehicle is exempt from South Carolina's 28c user fee.

Sales tax

6% sales tax applies unless an exemption does. Exempt: fuel for farm machinery and tractors, commercial fishing boats, curing crops, and fuel for heat or power in manufacturing.

Per-gallon charges dyed diesel still pays

Inspection fee: 0.25c; Environmental impact fee: 0.5c

Who may use it

Heating, trains and equipment not licensed as a motor vehicle; state and local government vehicles as federal law allows.

Penalty for highway use

Civil: the greater of $1,000 or $10 a gallon. A knowing violation is a misdemeanor: up to $10,000, up to 3 years, or both.

Roadside testing

No state roadside programme confirmed.

Buying it

No permit; retail pumps carry a dyed-fuel notice.

Sources: South Carolina Code Title 12 Chapter 28; South Carolina Code Title 12 Chapter 36. This is a summary, not legal or tax advice.

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Sources: price from the EIA Weekly On-Highway Diesel Fuel Price survey, week of October 26, 2026, series EMD_EPD2D_PTE_R1Z_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 taxes checked against each state's revenue department or statute on 22 October 2026 (sources in the tax breakdown above). Actual pump prices vary by retailer and location.

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