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TABLE 15-4a Average Transportation Fuel Prices by Type: 1993-2003

Monday, September 10, 2012

TABLE 15-4a Average Transportation Fuel Prices by Type: 1993-2003

Chained 2000 dollars per gallon

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  1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003
Aviation gasoline 1.12 1.06 1.09 1.19 1.18 1.01 1.08 1.31 1.29 1.24 1.41
Jet fuel, kerosene 0.66 0.59 0.59 0.69 0.64 0.47 0.55 0.90 0.76 0.69 0.82
Motor gasoline, all types 1.33 1.30 1.31 1.37 1.35 1.16 1.25 1.56 1.50 1.39 1.55
Diesel no. 2 0.68 0.61 0.61 0.73 0.67 0.51 0.60 0.94 0.82 0.73 0.89
Railroad diesel 0.71 0.66 0.65 0.72 0.71 0.59 0.57 0.87 0.83 0.71 U
Crude oil 0.44 0.41 0.45 0.53 0.48 0.31 0.43 0.67 0.53 0.55 0.64

KEY: U = data are unavailable.

NOTES: Except for motor gasoline, data do not include taxes. Motor gasoline data are retail prices, U.S. city average. Aviation, jet, and diesel no. 2 data are refiner prices to end users. Crude oil data are refiner acquisition costs.

Current dollars (see table 15-4b) were converted to chained 2000 dollars by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics to eliminate the effects of inflation over time.

SOURCES: Except railroad diesel-U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration, Monthly Energy Review, tables 9.1 (crude oil), 9.4 (motor gasoline), and 9.7 (aviation, jet, and diesel no. 2), available at http://www.eia.doe.gov/mer/prices.html, as of May 2004. Railroad diesel-Association of American Railroads, Railroad Facts 2003 (Washington, DC: 2003), p. 61.