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Macro & Inflation Nowcast · daily ban:medium tB

GasBuddy national/state average gas price

Daily average retail price per gallon (regular/mid/premium/diesel) by state and top metros

Feed detail
Measures
Daily average retail price per gallon (regular/mid/premium/diesel) by state and top metros
Source
GasBuddy API (gasprices.gasbuddy.com) or public widget feed
Access
json-api
Cadence
dailyupdates once a day
Thesis
Retail gas prices are close to real-time pass-through of wholesale/futures moves and are the single most volatile CPI energy sub-component — a daily feed materially beats the BLS monthly sample timing
Maps to
CPI Motor Fuel / Energy component, crude oil crack spread trades
Crowdedness
commodity
Tier
tB
Ban-risk
ban:medium
Where this stands

This is a catalogued data feed with a research idea attached, not a validated edge. Being listed here means it has a specific source and a one-sentence causal mechanism mapped to what it should move — it doesn’t mean it has cleared the five-stage validation gate (point-in-time hygiene, out-of-sample holdout, multiple-testing correction, and the portfolio-layer backstop). As of today, every score on this site is prior-only; zero signals in the catalog have been promoted to “measured” status. See the methodology page for the full validation process and current counts.

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