Retail price of regular gasoline (USD/gal) - United States - EIA - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: Retail gasoline prices (US)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In the United States, the retail price of regular gasoline was 4.32 USD/gal on 14 September 2026, versus 4.16 on 7 September 2026. This constitutes a gain of 3.85 percent.
Sample. In the weekly series displayed in the graph, there are 1,877 records overall. The series covers the time range stretching from August 1990 to September 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some simple statistics computed on the whole sample: the retail price was equal on average to 2.28 USD/gal; it reached a minimum of 0.91 on 22 February 1999; it recorded its maximum of 5.01 on 13 June 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/gal |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-31 | 4.07100 |
| 2026-09-07 | 4.15700 |
| 2026-09-14 | 4.31900 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Retail price of regular gasoline |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Price |
| Data type | Price |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Deflation method | Not applicable |
| Rescaling | None |
| Measure type | Level |
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Unit | USD/gal |
| Source | U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) |
| Source type | Government agency |
| Data licence | Public domain |
| Other information | Not available |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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