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The average price of gas nationwide reached a new high for 2026: $4.23 a gallon.
This chart of average national gas prices in 2026 starts January 1, when prices averaged $2.83 a gallon. Through January and February, prices ticked up all the way to $3 a gallon on March 2. Then they skyrocketed. Up to $4.17 a gallon on April 9. Then down a little. Then up even higher.Jan.2026Feb.MarchApril1.001.502.002.503.003.50$4.00 per gallon$2.83$4.23Jan. 8$2.82 per gallonJan. 8$2.82 per gallon
Notes: Gas prices are rounded to the nearest cent.
Source: AAA
Graphic: Joe Murphy / NBC News
The chart isn’t showing up for some reason, but it’s a line going almost straight up the day after Donald Trump launched his glorious war intended to [objectives missing here].
I confess to teetering on the brink of an overdose of schadenfreude, when I think of the moron swing voters who put this Category 5 disaster of a person in the White House because Eggs Exponsive and a Good Businessman would bring back 2019 pricing by draining the swamp.
We need the average price of a gallon of gas to go to six or seven dollars soon, and that may well happen before the “author” of The Art of the Deal manages to bribe the Iranians with enough billions to remove his own dick from the door in which he slammed it.
This stupid country.