Vermont Gas Prices This Week

In the EIA’s July 2026 (revised August 2026) table of motor fuel taxes, Vermont’s state taxes and fees on gasoline total 31.3¢ a gallon, the 25th-highest of the 50 states and D.C. The 51-jurisdiction average is 33.8¢, and the federal tax adds 18.4¢ everywhere. Only 12.1¢ of that is the excise tax. Most of the rest comes from two per-gallon assessments on gasoline, the motor fuel tax assessment and the motor fuel transportation infrastructure assessment, plus a 1¢ petroleum distributor licensing fee, all of which the EIA lists as other state taxes and fees.

Vermont has no refineries and no ocean coastline, so, unlike coastal New England states that receive tankers and barges directly, its gasoline arrives overland from terminals outside the state. The EPA lists no federal reformulated-gasoline areas in Vermont; the state uses conventional gasoline.

In the EIA’s annual state series, Vermont has long been one of the more expensive states. It ranked 49th-cheapest of 51 in 1970, 43rd in 1980, and 41st in 2024. Its average gap to the U.S. figure was 1.5¢ above in the 1970s, 5.6¢ to 6.8¢ above in each decade from the 1980s through the 2000s, 13.7¢ above in the 2010s, and 8.6¢ above in 2020–2024. In high-price years the gap was 14.1¢ above in 2008, 22.4¢ above in 2012, and 16.8¢ above in 2022. Its highest annual average is $4.06, in 2022. Adjusted for inflation its peak was 2012, at $5.29 in 2025 dollars. The largest one-year increase was 1979 (41.9%), and the largest decline 2015 (29.3%).

Vermont has no weekly EIA series. The weekly New England region (PADD 1A) shows the seasonal pattern: averaged over 2004–2025, 7.7% below the year’s average in January and 6.1% above in June.

Vermont has been the most expensive of its group of four for two decades. In every year since 2004, its annual average has been above New Hampshire’s, Massachusetts’s and New York’s. In 2024 New York averaged $3.17, New Hampshire $3.25 and Massachusetts $3.33, against $3.36 in Vermont. New York moved furthest in the decade, from 34th of 51 in 2014 to 21st in 2024, counting from the cheapest.

Against the U.S. figure the pattern is stronger still. Vermont was below it only in 1976–1978, and its premium reached 23.1¢ in 2013, when it ranked 47th of 51 counting from the cheapest. In 2024 the premium was 7.8¢.

The last ten years have brought it a little closer to the middle. Its rank moved from 46th in 2014 to 41st in 2024, and its price fell from $3.53 to $3.36, a larger drop than the national figure’s, from $3.31 to $3.29. Low sales volumes at rural stations and long truck runs from terminals outside the state are the explanations usually offered for where Vermont sits.

Vermont's 2.1¢ gap below the U.S. average came in 1977, the year it held its cheapest ranking, 8th-cheapest among the 50 states and D.C. Its price sat above the U.S. average in 52 of 55 years from 1970 to 2024. Its least favourable ranking was 49th-cheapest, which is 3rd-most-expensive, in 1970, 1971, 1972 and 1983.

The annual average was $0.39 in 1970 and $1.27 in 1980. Ranked from the cheapest, Vermont was 40th (tied) in 1990 at $1.21 and 33rd (tied) in 2000 at $1.53. It stood 42nd in 2010 at $2.85 and 34th in 2020 at $2.22, and in 2024 it was 11th-most-expensive.

The 2024 price of $3.36 was $3.46 in 2025 dollars, against $2.20 in 1998, the lowest on that basis. The U.S. average in 2024 was $3.29 on the same basis as Vermont's $3.36.

In 2024 all 3 of 3 bordering states averaged less than Vermont, and its margin was 3.5¢ above Massachusetts, 11.4¢ above New Hampshire and 19.6¢ above New York. In the EIA table dated July 2026, the average state tax total across the 50 states and D.C. is 33.8¢, and Vermont's total is 2.5¢ below that.