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Energy Inflation by Item
Change in consumer energy prices from a year earlier by item, latest month, %
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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted: each bar is the change in the category’s index from the same month a year earlier, the figure BLS publishes. Energy commodities are motor fuel and fuel oil (amber); energy services are electricity and piped gas (teal).
Gasoline, heating oil, electricity and natural gas in the consumer price index. Fuel at the pump swings with crude oil; household electricity and gas bills move more slowly.
What this chart reads·7 series
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- CPI-U: Energy (U.S., not seasonally adjusted)as “Energy”latest 2026-09-01
- CPI-U: Energy commodities (U.S., not seasonally adjusted)as “Energy commodities”latest 2026-09-01
- CPI-U: Gasoline (all types) (U.S., not seasonally adjusted)as “Gasoline (all types)”latest 2026-09-01
- CPI-U: Fuel oil (U.S., not seasonally adjusted)as “Fuel oil”latest 2026-09-01
- CPI-U: Energy services (U.S., not seasonally adjusted)as “Energy services”latest 2026-09-01
- CPI-U: Electricity (U.S., not seasonally adjusted)as “Electricity”latest 2026-09-01
- CPI-U: Utility (piped) gas service (U.S., not seasonally adjusted)as “Utility (piped) gas service”latest 2026-09-01
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CPI-U: Energy (U.S., not seasonally adjusted). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted, series CUUR0000SA0E: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUUR0000SA0E. Public domain ("everything that we publish... is in the public domain"). Read and, on CPI release days,; history from the BLS flat files (download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/cu).
CPI-U: Energy commodities (U.S., not seasonally adjusted). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted, series CUUR0000SACE: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUUR0000SACE. Public domain ("everything that we publish... is in the public domain"). Read and, on CPI release days,; history from the BLS flat files (download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/cu).
CPI-U: Gasoline (all types) (U.S., not seasonally adjusted). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted, series CUUR0000SETB01: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUUR0000SETB01. Public domain ("everything that we publish... is in the public domain"). Read and, on CPI release days,; history from the BLS flat files (download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/cu).
CPI-U: Fuel oil (U.S., not seasonally adjusted). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted, series CUUR0000SEHE01: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUUR0000SEHE01. Public domain ("everything that we publish... is in the public domain"). Read and, on CPI release days,; history from the BLS flat files (download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/cu).
CPI-U: Energy services (U.S., not seasonally adjusted). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted, series CUUR0000SEHF: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUUR0000SEHF. Public domain ("everything that we publish... is in the public domain"). Read and, on CPI release days,; history from the BLS flat files (download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/cu).
CPI-U: Electricity (U.S., not seasonally adjusted). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted, series CUUR0000SEHF01: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUUR0000SEHF01. Public domain ("everything that we publish... is in the public domain"). Read and, on CPI release days,; history from the BLS flat files (download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/cu).
CPI-U: Utility (piped) gas service (U.S., not seasonally adjusted). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted, series CUUR0000SEHF02: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUUR0000SEHF02. Public domain ("everything that we publish... is in the public domain"). Read and, on CPI release days,; history from the BLS flat files (download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/cu).
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