Sector/Product

Census Division

Residential Sector

  Distillate Fuel Oil    

0.40

0.47

0.34

0.27

0.45

0.30

0.21

0.28

0.41

  Kerosene    

0.17

 0.31 

0.43

0.26

0.32 

0.40

0.23

0.19

0.08

  Liquefied Petroleum Gases

0.91

0.96

0.53

0.36

0.82

0.69

0.61

0.56

0.83

Commercial Sector

  Distillate Fuel Oil    

0.15

0.12

0.06

0.03

0.07

0.04

0.04

0.04

0.07

  Gasoline    

0.15

0.13

0.14

0.15

0.13

0.17

0.17

0.16

0.16

  Kerosene    

0.16

0.26

0.46

0.26

0.30

0.41

0.19

0.20

0.10

  Liquefied Petroleum Gases

0.56

0.57

0.48

0.35

0.57

0.45

0.37

0.48

0.61

  Low-Sulfur Residual Fuel Oil

0.00

0.03

0.01

0.01

0.00

0.03

-0.01

0.03

0.09

Utility Sector

  Distillate Fuel Oil    

0.02

0.03

0.02

0.01

0.02

0.06

0.03

0.07

0.02

  High-Sulfur Residual Fuel Oil²

0.00

0.03

0.09

-0.04

0.01

-0.06

0.07

0.01

0.08

  Low-Sulfur Residual Fuel Oil³

-0.01

0.00

0.08

-0.07

0.01

-0.10

0.10

0.23

0.19

Transportation Sector

  Distillate Fuel Oil    

0.24

0.18

0.14

0.12

0.14

0.16

0.13

0.14

0.20

  E85¹    

0.41

0.41

0.41

0.41

0.41

0.41

0.41

0.41

0.41

  Gasoline    

0.15

0.13

0.14

0.15

0.13

0.17

0.17

0.17

0.13

  High-Sulfur Residual Fuel Oil²

-0.02

0.04

0.12

-0.04

0.00

-0.08

0.06

0.28

0.05

  Jet Fuel

0.02

-0.01

-0.02

-0.04

-0.03

0.00

0.00

-0.02

0.00

  Liquefied Petroleum Gases

0.51

 0.53

0.59

0.33

0.51

0.39

0.32

0.42

0.55

Industrial Sector

  Asphalt and Road Oil

0.23

0.18

0.29

 0.17 

0.16

0.09

0.19

0.36

 0.18

  Distillate Fuel Oil    

0.16

0.14

0.14

0.11

0.11

0.09

0.10

0.08

0.13

  Gasoline    

0.15

0.13

0.14

0.16

0.13

0.18

0.17

0.16

0.14

  Kerosene    

0.10

0.11

0.15

0.18

0.15

0.17

0.08

0.13

0.11

  Liquefied Petroleum Gases

0.44

0.49

0.55

0.29

0.48

0.39

0.24

0.28

0.54

  Low-Sulfur Residual Fuel Oil

0.00

0.00

0.03

0.02

0.01

-0.01

0.01

 0.09

0.09

¹85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline.
²Negative values indicate that average end-use sales prices were less than wholesale prices.  This often occurs with residual fuel which is produced as a biproduct when crude oil is refined to make higher value products like gasoline and heating oil.
Sources:  Markups based on data from Energy Information Administration (EIA), Form EIA-782A, Refiners’/Gas Plant Operators’ Monthly Petroleum Product Sales Report; EIA, Form EIA-782B, Resellers’/Retailers’ Monthly Petroleum Report Product Sales Report; EIA, Form FERC-423, Monthly Report of Cost and Quality of Fuels for Electric Plants; EIA, Form EIA-759 Monthly Power Plant Report; EIA, State Energy Data Report 1999, DOE/EIA-0214(99), (Washington, DC, May 2001); EIA, State Energy Price and Expenditures Report 1999, DOE/EIA-0376(99), (Washington, DC,  November 2001).