Gas Pain, Week of December 1, 2025

Relief at the pump this week. The U.S. average for regular fell 8¢ to $2.98 a gallon for the week of December 1, 2025, the kind of drop that shows on the first fill of the week. Over the past 12 weeks it was down $0.18, from $3.17 to $2.98.

California was the most expensive state at $4.36, $1.37 above the national figure, with Washington at $4.03 and Alaska at $3.67 (West Coast excl. California regional average) next. At the other end Colorado was cheapest at $2.41, $0.58 below national, followed by Texas at $2.53 and New Mexico at $2.55 (Gulf Coast regional average). The gap between the priciest and cheapest state was $1.95 a gallon, which on a 15-gallon tank was $29.25 for the same fill. The ranking counts all 50 states, with the regional average standing in wherever EIA publishes no state figure.

No state rose more than half a cent. Ohio fell the most, down $0.23 to $2.59; Texas (−$0.12) and Colorado (−$0.12) also fell.

At the national average a 15-gallon tank cost $44.77 to fill from empty and a 26-gallon truck tank $77.61; think mid-size sedan and full-size pickup. That was $1.14 less than the week before on the smaller tank and $1.98 on the larger one. Of the ten states at the extremes, 6 were shown at a regional average, because EIA publishes a weekly state figure for only 9 states and the rest take the average of their PADD region. Every figure here was from EIA's weekly retail gasoline series for that week.