District of Columbia diesel prices and fuel tax

The four numbers add up. State excise $0.2350 plus other state fees $0.1220 gives a state total of $0.3570. Add the federal $0.2440 and the all-in figure is $0.6010 a gallon.

Every figure is rounded to four decimal places of a dollar before it is shown, and the totals are the sum of the rounded figures rather than of the unrounded ones. On three states those two differ by one ten-thousandth of a dollar. We print the sum that matches the numbers you can see, because a page that shows its arithmetic should have arithmetic that checks out.

District of Columbia is not an IFTA jurisdiction, so no IFTA rate exists to file for it. That is not a gap in this page. The statutory excise above is the figure that applies.

The four figures above are the whole picture for District of Columbia. The statutory excise is what the state levies on a gallon of diesel sold there, other state fees are added on top, and the federal rate applies everywhere in the country.

The Energy Information Administration publishes a weekly on-highway diesel price on a district basis, not a state basis. There are ten districts in the whole country and District of Columbia is not one of them.

District of Columbia sits in the Central Atlantic (PADD 1B) district. The figure at the top of this page is that district's weekly price. It is not a District of Columbia price, and we are not going to label it as one.

Plenty of sites will show you a District of Columbia diesel price. What they are showing you is the same district number they show for every neighbouring state, because the state-level number does not exist to show. If a site claims a per-state diesel price, ask it which survey it came from.