Gas Prices in Texas Today

In the EIA’s July 2026 (revised August 2026) table of motor fuel taxes, Texas’s state taxes and fees on gasoline total 20.0¢ a gallon, tied for the 5th-lowest of the 50 states and D.C. The 51-jurisdiction average is 33.8¢, and the federal tax adds 18.4¢ everywhere. The Texas rate of 20¢ a gallon has not changed since 1991 and is not indexed to inflation, so it has fallen steadily relative to states that raise or index their taxes.

Texas has more refining capacity than any other state, about one-third of the U.S. total according to the EIA, concentrated along the Gulf Coast around Houston, Beaumont, Port Arthur, and Corpus Christi. Major product pipelines, including the Colonial Pipeline to the East Coast, start there. Gasoline sold in Texas travels a short distance from the refinery, while gasoline sold in most other states carries pipeline or shipping costs from the Gulf Coast.

Fuel rules vary by region. The Houston–Galveston and Dallas–Fort Worth areas require federal reformulated gasoline, and the EIA publishes separate reformulated and conventional prices for Texas. The headline price on this page is the blend of both.

The seasonal rise begins early. Averaged over 2004–2025, Texas prices are 9.3% below the annual average in January and already 2.7% above in April, reaching 7.0% above in June. The proximity to refineries also means that Gulf Coast disruptions reach Texas prices directly: two of the four largest one-week increases in its record came after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Hurricane Harvey in 2017.

Texas’s weekly average has been below the U.S. average in every week but one since June 2000. The exception was the week of April 10, 2006, when it was 1.2¢ above.

Texas held the cheapest ranking among the 50 states and D.C. in 1973, 1974, 1976, 1978–1980, 1982, 1983, 2016, 2020, 2023 and 2024. Its least favourable ranking was 25th-cheapest (26th-most-expensive) in 1995. In 2024 the 51st-most-expensive position was the flip side of that cheapest rank, and the annual average was $2.88, or $2.96 in constant 2025 dollars.

The annual average was above the U.S. average in 6 of 55 years, which were 1990–1995, and below it in 49 of 55. Texas averaged 2.0¢ above the U.S. in 1991. It averaged 43.6¢ below in 2022, the year its annual average peaked at $3.46. In 2024 the gap was 40.4¢ below the U.S. figure of $3.29.

Earlier annual averages were $0.33 in 1970, $1.16 in 1980, $1.15 in 1990, $1.41 in 2000, $2.62 in 2010 and $1.85 in 2020. Texas ranked 3rd-cheapest in 1970, cheapest in 1980 and 2020, and 5th-cheapest in 2000 and 2010. The 1990 average ranked 18th-cheapest.

Across the four bordering states in 2024, Oklahoma had the highest average at $3.04 and Louisiana the lowest at $2.91. Arkansas averaged $2.92 and New Mexico $3.02. Texas averaged 2.3¢ below Louisiana, and 0 of 4 bordering states averaged less than Texas that year.

In 2021 the annual average rose 43.7%, the largest one-year rise, and in 2015 it fell 29.9%, the largest one-year fall. From 2014 to 2024 it fell 8.2% at the pump.