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Table 3-8: Sales Price of Transportation Fuel to End-Users

(Current ยข/gallon)

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  1980 1985 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 P2000
Aviation fuel (excluding taxes)                          
Aviation gasolinea 108.4 120.1 112.0 104.7 102.7 99.0 95.7 100.5 111.6 112.8 97.5 105.9 126.0
Jet fuel kerosenea 86.8 79.6 76.6 65.2 61.0 58.0 53.4 54.0 65.1 61.3 45.2 R54.3 99.8
Highway fuel                          
Gasoline (including taxes)                          
Leadedb 119 112 115 U U U U U U U U U U
Unleaded premiumb N 134 135 132 132 130 131 134 141 142 125 136 169
Unleaded regularb 125 120 116 114 113 111 111 115 123 123 106 117 151
All types 122 120 122 120 119 117 117 121 129 129 112 122 156
Diesel no. 2(excluding taxes)a 81.8 78.9 72.5 64.8 61.9 60.2 55.4 56.0 68.1 64.2 49.4 R58.4 99.7
Railroad fuel                          
Diesel 82.6 77.8 69.2 67.2 63.3 63.1 59.9 60.0 67.7 67.8 57.0 55.5 87.5

KEY: N = data do not exist; P = preliminary; R = revised; U = data are not available.

a Sales to end users (those sales made directly to the ultimate consumer, including bulk customers in agriculture, industry, and utility).

b Average retail price.

SOURCES:

All data except railroad fuel:

U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Review 2000, DOE/EIA-0384(97) (Washington, DC: August 2001), tables 5.20 and 5.22.

Railroad fuel:

Association of American Railroads, Railroad Facts (Washington, DC: 2001), p. 61.