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Gas Prices Up 41% Year Over Year as Energy Drives Inflation

Published November 2, 20265 min read

A fuel-pump nozzle rests in a car's fuel filler at a softly blurred gas station. — A fill-up puts rising gasoline costs directly into a household's weekly budget. Illustration: MarketIntelLabs

Gasoline is the number that defines the week of November 2. The national average was $4.269 a gallon in the week of October 26, up 40.7 percent from the $3.035 average of a year ago, per the Energy Information Administration's weekly retail survey via FRED. That is roughly $1.23 more per gallon than in late October 2025. On a 12-gallon fill the extra is about $14.80; a household doing two fills a month is out roughly $30 before any other bill moves.

Key Takeaways The national gasoline average ran $4.269 a gallon in the week of October 26, up 40.7 percent from a year ago and about $1.23 per gallon higher on the year. Energy was most of the September price story: the energy component of CPI ros…

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