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Gas Price
The national average price of a gallon of regular gas.
$4.15
Dollars per gallon · latest, Jun 2026
vs prior month ▼ 7.4%
vs year ago ▲ 31.0%
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These are nominal dollars, the prices of each year. Flip "today's dollars" to strip out inflation and compare real buying power across time.
Source: FRED · GASREGW · series · Aug 1990 to Jun 2026
· latest-revised
Reading it. Nominal dollars per gallon, the weekly national average. Pump prices vary by region, grade, and taxes.
About the bands. Shaded spans are NBER-dated US recessions, drawn as factual overlays. They mark when the economy contracted, not why. Lining an event or policy up with a move on this chart is not evidence that it caused the move.