Motor Fuel Underground
Fuel taxes on a city-stage of noise and numbers.
Explore gasoline and diesel tax rates across states, territories, and years from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
Tutorial
Read the stage in four moves.
- Choose Gasoline or Diesel.
- Drag the year slider to hear the decade change shape.
- Flip High or Low to see who sits at either edge.
- Pick a jurisdiction and follow its rate line.
Start with fuel type. The bars and list update together.
What If
Local stress tests, not forecasts.
CRT simulation reacts to the selected fuel, year, and ranking edge.
Highest gasoline rates in 2026
Rates are cents per gallon as reported by the source field.
Settings
Tune the room.
Credits
Data, tools, and art sources.
- Dataset: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Tax Rates by Motor Fuel and State.
- Runtime: static HTML, CSS, JavaScript ES modules, and local Three.js r185.
- Visuals: built-in image_gen assets in a late-1960s NYC proto-punk art-rock zine collage direction, including the CRT console frame and TV news broadcasts.
- Sprites: Fuel Needle and CRT arcade strips processed with local chroma-key removal.