Retail price of conventional 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 conventional gasoline stood at 4.27 USD/gal on 14 September 2026, versus 4.10 on 7 September. This represents an increase of 4.15 percent.
Sample. There are 1,658 data points overall in the weekly series shown in the figure above. The series covers the time period stretching from November 1994 to September 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few simple statistics computed on the full sample: the retail price reached a minimum of 0.93 USD/gal on 22 February 1999; it recorded a maximum of 4.92 on 13 June 2022; it had a mean value of 2.44.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/gal |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-31 | 4.017 |
| 2026-09-07 | 4.099 |
| 2026-09-14 | 4.269 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Retail price of conventional 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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