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 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 52.4 cents, or 10 percent of the price shown above. Tax rates come from the Federation of Tax Administrators, not from EIA.

EIA Weekly On-Highway Diesel Survey - week of August 31, 2026

Diesel cost per gallon in South Carolina

$5.28/GAL

-0.32 vs US average ($5.60)EIA Lower Atlantic (PADD 1C)District #1 of 9

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 $5.276 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

Federal diesel excise tax24.4c/gal

South Carolina state diesel tax28.0c/gal

Total tax52.4c/gal

Tax as percent of the price above10%

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 South Carolina is surveyed directly.

Neighbouring states

North Carolina

same district$5.28

Georgia

same district$5.28

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.

CALCULATE YOUR FUEL COST IN SOUTH CAROLINA

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.

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Sources: price from the EIA Weekly On-Highway Diesel Fuel Price survey, week of August 31, 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 tax from the Federation of Tax Administrators. Actual pump prices vary by retailer and location.

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SOURCE: EIA Weekly On-Highway Diesel Fuel Price survey
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