Georgia Gas Prices This Week

In the EIA’s July 2026 (revised August 2026) table of motor fuel taxes, Georgia’s state taxes and fees on gasoline total 34.1¢ a gallon, the 18th-highest of the 50 states and D.C. The 51-jurisdiction average is 33.8¢, and the federal tax adds 18.4¢ everywhere. Georgia sets its excise rate each year by a formula based on the fuel efficiency of Georgia-registered vehicles and the Consumer Price Index; a prepaid local sales tax on fuel also applies. The state has suspended the excise tax three times in recent years: from March 18, 2022 to January 10, 2023; from September 13 to November 29, 2023; and from March 20 to June 2, 2026.

Georgia has no refineries. Its gasoline arrives on the Colonial and Plantation pipelines from Gulf Coast refineries, which pass through the Atlanta area on their way to the Carolinas and Virginia.

In the EIA’s annual state averages, Georgia was the cheapest of the 50 states and D.C. in every year from 1987 through 2007, and in 31 of the 38 years from 1987 to 2024. The 2022 tax suspension is visible in the data: that year Georgia ranked cheapest, at 48.8¢ below the U.S. average, the widest gap in its record. With the tax restored, it ranked second in 2023 and sixth in 2024. Georgia’s record annual average is $3.41 in 2022, the lowest 2022 figure of any state.

Fuel rules have eased. EPA’s tighter 7.8 psi summer volatility limit for 13 metro Atlanta counties was lifted in October 2019, and EPA removed Georgia’s own low-sulfur, low-volatility fuel rule for 45 counties from the state air plan in 2015.

Georgia is in the EIA’s Lower Atlantic region (PADD 1C), whose weekly prices vary less over the year than the U.S. average: January averages 7.7% below the year’s mean and June 5.1% above.

Georgia's 2024 average of $2.95 sat 33.6¢ below the U.S. figure of $3.29, and 1 of 5 bordering states averaged less. That state was Alabama at $2.89, and Georgia was 6.1¢ above it. Georgia was 4.1¢ below South Carolina ($2.99), 13.0¢ below Tennessee ($3.08) and 13.2¢ below Florida ($3.08). North Carolina, at $3.18, had the highest bordering average in 2024, and Georgia was 22.9¢ below it.

Georgia's $1.03 in 1990 made it the cheapest state, a rank it held again in 2000 at $1.29 and in 2010 at $2.54, while 2020 brought 6th-cheapest at $1.90. Earlier, Georgia stood 10th-cheapest (tied) in 1970 at $0.35 and 25th-cheapest (tied) in 1980 at $1.24, while its least favourable ranking, 36th-cheapest (16th-most-expensive), came in 1974.

Georgia's annual average was above the U.S. figure in 9 of 55 years: 1972, 1974–1978 and 1980–1982. In 1981 Georgia averaged 1.3¢ above the U.S. figure, the largest such amount in any year, and in the other 45 years it averaged below. A 42.5% rise in 1974 and a 30.9% fall in 2009 are the largest one-year moves in its annual average. Adjusted to 2025 dollars, 1981 brought Georgia's $4.89 high and 1998 its $1.70 low. Georgia's state tax total was 0.3¢ above the 33.8¢ average for the 50 states and D.C. in the EIA's July 2026 table.