Monthly Retail Prices for Gasoline and Heating Fuel

Monthly average retail prices for diesel, premium unleaded, regular unleaded gasoline, and household heating fuel. The dataset is provided by the Government of New Brunswick via the Socrata platform and was last updated in February 2026. It tracks price fluctuations over time for key consumer energy products.

Use Cases

• Analyze the correlation between 'Regular unleaded gasoline at self service filling stations' and 'Diesel fuel at self service filling stations' prices over the 'Date' column.
• Model seasonal patterns in 'Household heating fuel / Combustible de chauffage domestique' costs using time-series forecasting on the monthly 'Date' field.
• Compare the price premium between 'Premium unleaded gasoline at self service filling stations' and regular unleaded gasoline across different time periods.
• Build a dashboard to visualize the historical trends of all four fuel price columns against the 'Date' timeline.

Strengths

• Data includes four distinct fuel price metrics for multi-faceted analysis.
• Structured as a monthly time-series, enabling trend and seasonality studies.
• Last update recorded as February 2026, indicating recent maintenance.

Limitations

• Unknown total row count and historical time range limit longitudinal analysis.
• Geographic coverage is implied but not explicitly stated, potentially limiting generalizability.
• Sample data is unavailable to verify data formats or value ranges prior to download.

Provenance

Source

gnb.socrata.com (Government of New Brunswick).

Collection Method

Presumably collected from retail market surveys or reports.

Time Range

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Freshness

Updated monthly, with a last update date of 2026-02-06.

Geography

Likely New Brunswick, Canada, but not explicitly confirmed in provided metadata.