$4 Gas, Again

The pump moved $1.30 in three months. The math on switching to electric just got simpler.

Gasoline pumped past $4 a gallon in 04/2026. The U.S. monthly average hit $4.236 — up from $2.94 in 01/2026. The climb took three months.

$2.94 in 01/2026. $4.24 in 04/2026. The pump moves faster than wages.

For a driver covering 12,000 miles a year at 25 mpg, that 04/2026 number works out to roughly $2,030 in fuel. Charging the same miles at home on a Level 2 charger — at the U.S. residential average — is closer to $480. The gap is large enough to fund a charger and an installation in the first year.

Pump prices will move again, in either direction. Home electricity rates are flatter, more predictable, and increasingly cheaper per mile. The case for switching isn't ideological. It's arithmetic.