Gas Facts Project

Check your facts at the door.

This dashboard pulls weekly U.S. regular gasoline data from EIA and turns it into a cleaner fact-check workflow: long-run charting, selection-aware stats, and a rough inflation-adjusted view for calling out bad nostalgia with actual numbers.

Source: EIA weekly U.S. regular gasoline
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Latest Weekly Reading
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Latest In Today's Dollars
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All-Time Nominal Peak
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All-Time Cheapest Week
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Gas Price Timeline

Nominal prices are always shown. Turn on the buying-power overlay when you want to compare cash prices versus real purchasing impact.

1983-1990: Monthly (Total, PTA) 1990-1993: Weekly (Regular) 1993+: Weekly (Total)
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Window Controls

Use presets or drag the timeline to focus your analysis window.

Range

Use presets or drag the slider to focus the timeline window.

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Conflict

Manage the war timeline, filters, and table detail level.

Overlay wars / major military actions
War filter: include U.S.-involved
War filter: include oil-market relevant
War filter: minimum duration
Conflict table view

Political Context

Turn long-run U.S. governance overlays on or off.

Overlay presidential terms
Overlay House/Senate control

Market Overlays

Compare gas prices with inflation, markets, vehicles, and production.

Overlay buying power estimate
Overlay U.S. registered vehicles
Overlay DOW average
Overlay WTI crude ÷ 42 (per-gallon equivalent)
Overlay Brent crude ÷ 42 (per-gallon equivalent)
Overlay oil production (World / OPEC / U.S. + top-5 producers)
U.S. & World refinery capacity / utilization tracker

News & Axis

Control headline matching and how dates are shown.

News headlines for selected date
News match mode
Force detailed dates on time charts

Oil Production Context

Annual crude oil production for the top 25 producing countries (TBPD).

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Governance Context Charts

Oil-linked political context stays on this page: one aligned timeline for President, Senate, and House. Open full political history →

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