Gas and diesel price update: EIA and AAA show pump costs ticking up

United States drivers and households planning for commuting and deliveries got a reminder this week: the latest pump-price snapshot is moving up again, not down.

In the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) weekly retail survey for the week ended July 13, 2026, regular gasoline and on-highway diesel both increased versus the prior week. AAA’s national averages as of July 19, 2026 show a matching week-ago pattern for both regular gas and diesel.

Quick snapshot (what changed since last week)

EIA’s latest weekly averages (including taxes) show:

• Regular gasoline: $3.855 per gallon for the week ended July 13, 2026, up from $3.777 for the week ended July 6, 2026.
• On-highway diesel: $4.796 per gallon for the week ended July 13, 2026, up from $4.578 for the week ended July 6, 2026.

EIA posts these weekly series with an explicit release cadence. For this cycle, EIA lists a release date of July 14, 2026 and a next release date of July 21, 2026.

EIA numbers in context: weekly averages that include taxes

EIA’s figures are weekly survey averages for the week-ending dates shown on the series pages. For budgeting, that means they’re best treated as a “typical week” pump-cost pressure gauge—not a daily receipt price at any one station.

Still, the direction matters. Compared with the prior week:

• Regular gasoline rose by 7.8 cents per gallon (from $3.777 to $3.855).
• On-highway diesel rose by 21.8 cents per gallon (from $4.578 to $4.796).

For households, gasoline can feed into higher commuting costs and weekend driving budgets. Diesel matters for the broader goods flow—delivery fleets, service trucks, and other businesses that rely on on-highway diesel can carry those higher fuel baselines into operating costs.

AAA triangulation (daily “as of” snapshot): week-ago comparisons also point up

AAA’s national averages are a daily snapshot with a clear “price as of” date. That isn’t the same measurement window as EIA’s weekly averages, but the week-ago direction is consistent. As of July 19, 2026, AAA reports:

• Regular gasoline: $3.9980, compared with $3.8760 one week earlier.
• Diesel: $5.1010, compared with $4.8800 one week earlier.

This reinforces a simple takeaway for household budgets and small businesses that run on vehicles or delivery routes: transport fuel pressure hasn’t fully cooled yet.

What to watch next

Two practical checkpoints:

• EIA’s next weekly release: July 21, 2026. If the next week-ended averages continue rising, household commuting baselines and diesel-linked operating costs may stay elevated.
• AAA’s day-to-day trend: whether national averages continue to sit above their week-ago levels after July 19, 2026.

If your household budget is tight, the most useful planning habit is to treat fuel as a moving baseline: when both the weekly survey (EIA) and the daily national snapshot (AAA) point the same way, it’s usually a sign you should expect less relief than you might otherwise assume.

Sources

• U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) — Retail Prices for Regular Gasoline (weekly series, incl. taxes)
• AAA — National Average Gas Prices (regular and diesel) with “Price as of” date and week-ago comparisons

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