Cash totals at the register could be rounded to the nearest nickel under a bill Congress has passed. The measure is the Common Cents Act, H.R. 10167, which ends production of the penny for general circulation and lets sellers round cash totals to a multiple of five cents. The House passed it by voice vote…

September was the most expensive September on record for gasoline. AAA says the national average for the month came to $4.33 a gallon, which is 50 cents above the previous September record of $3.83, set in 2023. The motor club announced the figure in its weekly gas price report on Oct. 1. The record covers…

A gallon of regular gasoline costs $4.37 at the national average today, and the federal government expects the price to fall next year. The Energy Information Administration, the Energy Department’s statistics agency, says in its October 6 outlook that gasoline will average just under $3.60 a gallon in 2027. The same outlook has retail diesel…

A gallon of diesel cost $6.32 on average across the country on Oct. 6, up from $3.68 a year earlier, AAA’s daily fuel report says. The exact figures were $6.3151 now and $3.6790 on the same date in 2025. That is $2.64 more per gallon, a jump of about 72 percent in twelve months. The…

Grocery and restaurant prices in 2027 are forecast to rise 2.0 percent over the year, but the government economists who made the call attach a forecast interval running from a 2.7 percent decline to a 7.0 percent increase. That range is the real content of the forecast. A midpoint of 2.0 percent describes the center…

Pump prices are not one number. On October 2, 2026, a gallon of regular in California averaged $6.4008 and a gallon in Indiana averaged $3.7902, a difference of $2.61 between the most expensive state and the cheapest in the same daily reading. The spread sits on top of a national average that has climbed sharply…

At 12:01 a.m. Eastern time on September 29, 2026, certain Canadian dairy products stopped being allowed into the United States at all. Proclamation 11062, signed September 8, replaces a 50% import duty on those goods with an outright ban for anything arriving after that moment. The action is a trade-retaliation measure, not a food-safety one,…

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Sept. 11 that its energy index rose 16.3 percent for the 12 months ending August 2026, and that the gasoline index within it rose 27.4 percent over the same 12 months. The same release put the index for all items less food and energy, the measure usually called…

Executive Order 14425, titled Supporting America’s Ranchers, was signed on Sept. 4, 2026 and published in the Federal Register on Sept. 10. Its opening findings state that “the national herd is at a 75-year low, while consumer demand for beef has grown almost 10 percent over the past decade.” Most of what the order then…

Regular gasoline averaged $4.465 a gallon across the United States for the week ending September 28, 2026, and on-highway diesel averaged $6.382, according to the Energy Information Administration. Both prices slipped from the prior week, but both sit far above where they stood a year earlier, which is the comparison that matters for a household…