The given chart compares the average fuel price in the USA over a seven-year period, from 2005 to 2011.
Overall, it can be seen that the gas price recorded its lowest point in the initial year of the period and reached its peak in 2011. Moreover, gas prices fluctuated throughout the period but showed an upward trend overall.
At the beginning of the period, the figure for the average price of fuel stood at 2.27 dollars and rose by 0.30 dollars in the following year. However, the recorded average gas price then witnessed a marginal decline to 2.50 dollars before bouncing back to 3.25 in the next year, which was relatively high.
From 2009 onwards, this number once again fell considerably to 2.35, which was relatively close to the initial cost. After experiencing a significant fall in 2009, the average fuel price climbed back to 2.78 in the following year and continued to rise to 3.52 in the last year of the period, reaching the highest number.