The Gas Map

The Problem

Gas prices change every single day, and the gap between states can run more than a dollar a gallon. AAA publishes the data, but their site is dense, hard to scan, and was not built for someone trying to make a quick decision before a road trip or to figure out where the cheapest fuel is right now.

The Gas Map is a faster, cleaner way to look at the same numbers. One page, every state, every grade, refreshed daily, with charts and a fill-up calculator built in.

What It Shows

• National and state averages for every U.S. state and DC, with prices side by side so the cheapest and most expensive stand out
• Six fuel grades in one click: Regular, Mid-Grade, Premium, Diesel, UNL 88, and E85
• Price history charts for the last week, month, three months, six months, or full year
• Cost-to-fill calculator that takes a tank size and shows what it costs in the cheapest state, the national average, and the most expensive state
• Regional rollups for West Coast, Mountain, Midwest, Gulf, Northeast, and Southeast
• Global comparison with a handful of other countries to put U.S. prices in context
• Plain-English explainers on why prices vary by state, what drives daily changes, and how oil prices feed into pump prices

How It Works

Prices come straight from AAA's Daily Fuel Gauge Report, which surveys more than 60,000 retail stations every day across all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The page pulls fresh data on every load, so what you see is what AAA is reporting at that moment. Timestamp under the headline shows the last refresh.

Privacy and Data

The Gas Map runs entirely in your browser. There are no accounts, no tracking, no analytics beyond basic page counts. The page fetches data from AAA on each load and renders it locally. Nothing about you or your visit is stored or shared.

If you are headed somewhere on miles instead of by car, the Delta Price Tracker watches your booked flights for price drops on the same kind of principle: live data, no cloud lock-in, no fee.