The US Energy Index blends the four prices a household actually pays for energy — gasoline at the pump, electricity at the meter, piped gas and heating oil — into a single monthly figure, weighted by what households actually spend on each. Rules-based, computed from public BLS price data, base 2000 = 100. The figure, the weights, the source, the month. You draw the conclusion.
571 months · sources: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Average Price Data (US city average) (prices), US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Expenditure Surveys, 2024 (weights) · ↓ full history (CSV) · methodology v1.0
US Energy Index, 268.6 (May 2026, 2000=100). Clay Indices, usenergyindex.com.| Component | Price | MoM | YoY | Weight | Source | Month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gasoline | $4.651 $/gal | +9.1% | +40.7% | 49.6% | US Bureau of Labor Statistics | May 2026 |
| Electricity | $0.196 $/kWh | +1.0% | +7.7% | 37.7% | US Bureau of Labor Statistics | May 2026 |
| Natural gas | $1.677 $/therm | +0.1% | +3.1% | 10.1% | US Bureau of Labor Statistics | May 2026 |
| Heating oil | $5.293 $/gal | +0.0% | +54.2% | 2.6% | US Bureau of Labor Statistics | May 2026 |
Weights are the 2024 Consumer Expenditure Survey annual dollars per household, normalized. The weight is what makes the blend honest: gasoline moves the index almost twice as hard as electricity because households spend almost twice as much on it.
$4.651 $/gal in May 2026, +40.7% on the year. Average retail price of one gallon of unleaded regular gasoline, US city average, including taxes.
$0.196 $/kWh in May 2026, +7.7% on the year. Average residential price of one kilowatt-hour of electricity, US city average, including taxes and fuel adjustments.
$1.677 $/therm in May 2026, +3.1% on the year. Average residential price of one therm of utility (piped) natural gas, US city average, including taxes.
$5.293 $/gal in May 2026, +54.2% on the year. Average residential price of one gallon of No.
A page per state: the latest prices by category and the price of each fuel per million Btu since 1980, from the EIA's State Energy Data System.
What a kilowatt-hour costs at home in every state, April 2026 against April 2025, from the EIA's monthly utility census. The national average hides a three-to-one spread.