US Regular Gasoline Retail Price (1990–2026)

The US Regular Gasoline Retail Price is the national average pump price for regular all-formulations gasoline, published weekly by the EIA since 1990, in dollars per gallon. It is the single most-watched energy price in American daily life — the number on every corner sign and the one that moves consumer sentiment and headline inflation. From the 2022-06-13 peak of $5.006 to sub-$1 lows in the late 1990s, it captures four decades of the driver-facing cost of oil. Mid-2026 sits at $3.83.

Dataset: US Regular Gasoline Retail Price (1990–2026) · Updated 2026-08-03

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) · series EMM_EPMR_PTE_NUS_DPG

Macro Takeaway

Dataset Overview

Dataset Variables

The CSV and Excel files contain the following columns.

A value of 3.831 means the national average pump price was $3.83 per gallon that week.

Download the Complete Dataset

The full dataset is available in CSV and Excel formats.

EIA Direct API Access

The underlying data comes from the U.S. Energy Information Administration API v2 (route petroleum/pri/gnd, series EMM_EPMR_PTE_NUS_DPG). An EIA API key is free from the EIA developer portal.

Direct CSV Access — Eco3min Structured Dataset

https://eco3min.fr/dataset/eia/us-gasoline-retail-price.csv

This URL returns the complete, cleaned dataset in CSV format. It can be used directly in pandas, R, curl, or any data tool — no key required.

Using the Dataset in Python

import pandas as pd

url = "https://eco3min.fr/dataset/eia/us-gasoline-retail-price.csv"
df = pd.read_csv(url, parse_dates=["date"])

print(f"Latest: {df['gasoline_price'].iloc[-1]:.3f} USD/gallon")
print(df.tail())

Using the Dataset in R

library(readr)

url <- "https://eco3min.fr/dataset/eia/us-gasoline-retail-price.csv"
df <- read_csv(url)

tail(df)
summary(df$gasoline_price)

Both examples load the dataset directly from the URL — no download or API key required.

Methodology

The EIA collects prices each Monday from a sample of roughly 1,000 retail outlets nationwide through the Weekly Retail Gasoline and Diesel Prices survey, releasing the national and regional averages the same afternoon. The price includes all taxes.

This dataset is refreshed daily (Mon–Sat) via automated pull from the EIA API v2; new observations appear with each source release.

Data Quality & Provider Notes

• Release cadence. Weekly, every Monday afternoon (Tuesday after a Monday federal holiday). One of the timeliest official price series in US statistics.
• What it includes. All formulations (conventional plus reformulated) and all taxes. The pump price, not a pre-tax or wholesale figure.
• Revisions. Rarely revised; survey-based spot readings rather than modeled estimates.
• Seasonality. Strong and not seasonally adjusted — summer-blend transition and driving-season demand lift spring/summer prices structurally.
• Known gaps. None; continuous weekly since August 1990.

Common Pitfalls When Using This Series

1. Reading the pump price as the oil price. Taxes, refining margin, and retail markup make up a large and variable share; crude explains most of the long-run trend but little of the week-to-week move.
2. Ignoring seasonality. The spring rise into summer-blend season is mechanical; comparing April to January without it manufactures a false trend.
3. Treating the national average as local. State taxes and regional refining mean California and the Gulf Coast routinely differ by more than a dollar; the national figure is an aggregate, not a local price.
4. Expecting symmetric pass-through. Pump prices rise faster than they fall relative to crude — the asymmetry is a documented property of this series, not a market anomaly.

Historical Regimes

1990–1999 — The cheap-oil decade. Prices spent most of the decade near $1.00–$1.30, bottoming at $0.907 in February 1999 amid the oil-price collapse — the last era of structurally cheap US gasoline.

2000–2008 — The long climb. A steady rise on Chinese demand and a weak dollar, peaking near $4.10 in mid-2008 before the financial crisis crushed demand and price together.

2009–2014 — Recovery and plateau. Back above $3.50 and range-bound as US shale reshaped supply — high but stable pump prices.

2015–2020 — The shale glut. Prices fell to $2 and below as US production surged; the 2020 demand collapse briefly pushed averages toward $1.80.

2021–2026 — Shock and normalization. The reopening plus the 2022 invasion of Ukraine drove the all-time nominal peak of $5.006 (June 2022); prices then normalized toward $3.83 by mid-2026. — to be read alongside the refining-margin series built from EIA spot prices.

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Sources

• U.S. Energy Information Administration — Weekly Retail Gasoline and Diesel Prices (series EMM_EPMR_PTE_NUS_DPG)

Dataset Reference

Eco3min Research. (2026). US Regular Gasoline Retail Price (1990–2026).<br> https://eco3min.fr/en/us-gasoline-retail-price-dataset/