Gasoline, regular, per gallon priced in Bitcoin: 2015 to 2025
Priced in fiat
Priced in sats
Gasoline, regular, per gallon (per gallon) cost $2.45 in 2015 and $3.26 in 2025, a change of +33% in US dollars across 10 years. The figures are annual averages from US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Average Price Data, Gasoline, regular, per gallon (series APU000074714). The fiat peak in this series came in 2022 at $4.09.
Priced in sats, the same item went from 897,436 sats to 3,195 sats, a change of −99.6%. The conversion uses the yearly average BTC price for each matching year, never a rate from a different era. The least flattering single step for the sats series was 2021 to 2022, when this item moved +130.6% in sats terms. Short windows can and do run against the holder; the direction across the full series is what the chart shows.
The pump price is America's most watched number. It carries every supply shock within weeks, and the 2022 spike shows in both columns; only one gave it back.
Energy prices carry every shock in the world straight into household budgets. The comparison on the main page shows the same shocks against a unit nobody can print.
| Year | US dollars | Sats |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | $2.45 | 897,436 |
| 2016 | $2.14 | 368,330 |
| 2017 | $2.41 | 57,041 |
| 2018 | $2.74 | 37,581 |
| 2019 | $2.64 | 35,556 |
| 2020 | $2.17 | 18,390 |
| 2021 | $3.05 | 6,394 |
| 2022 | $4.09 | 14,742 |
| 2023 | $3.66 | 12,424 |
| 2024 | $3.45 | 5,166 |
| 2025 | $3.26 | 3,195 |
Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Average Price Data, Gasoline, regular, per gallon (APU000074714). Sats = fiat price ÷ BTC price in that currency × 100,000,000, using yearly average BTC rates. Data vintage 2026-07-05. Full method on the main page.
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