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Track Fuel and Gas Prices from Your iPhone

Pump prices respond to crude oil moves — but there's a lag and a spread between the barrel price and what you pay at the pump. Oil Prices Live tracks the full chain: crude oil, gasoline, diesel, and natural gas — so you understand the whole picture.

How crude oil price affects gas prices

Crude oil accounts for roughly 50–60% of the final retail gasoline price. The rest is refining costs (10–15%), distribution and marketing (10–15%), and taxes (15–25%). When crude oil rises by $10 per barrel, retail gasoline prices typically rise by about 23–25 cents per gallon — but the relationship isn't immediate. Retail prices typically follow crude moves with a 2–6 week lag.

Tracking crude prices in the app gives you a leading indicator for where pump prices are likely to go in the coming weeks.

Gasoline and distillate futures prices

The app tracks RBOB gasoline futures (the primary US gasoline benchmark) and heating oil futures (a proxy for diesel) alongside crude oil. These refined product prices reflect not just crude costs but refinery margins, seasonal demand, and supply at the product level.

Gasoline futures and crude oil prices typically move together, but the crack spread (the difference between crude and refined product prices) can widen or narrow significantly based on refinery utilization and seasonal demand patterns.

Natural gas — a different market

Natural gas is technically a different commodity than crude oil, but it's included in the app because it's a primary energy input for heating, electricity generation, and industrial processes. Natural gas prices are driven by weather (cold winters drive heating demand), storage levels, and LNG export volumes.

The Henry Hub natural gas price is the US benchmark; the TTF price is the European benchmark. Both are tracked live in the app.

Using energy prices for business planning

For businesses with significant fuel or energy costs — trucking companies, airlines, agricultural operations, manufacturing — tracking energy prices in real time improves cost planning and hedging decisions.

The historical charts let you assess current fuel costs against the past 1–5 years to determine whether current prices are elevated or depressed, informing decisions about whether to lock in forward fuel costs through hedges or wait for a more favorable market.

Track Every Energy Price in One App

Download Oil Prices Live free on iOS — crude oil, gasoline, diesel, and natural gas prices live in one place.

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