at the pump

idiom

variants or less commonly at the pumps

US, informal

: at the places where customers buy gasoline for their cars

Prices are higher at the pump.

Expect long lines at the pumps this weekend.

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If approved, the move is expected to increase prices at the pump — but how much has become a matter of increasingly fierce debate. —

Rob Nikolewski, The Mercury News, 4 Nov. 2024 What makes hydrogen passenger cars altogether costlier than their battery-electric counterparts is the lack of fueling infrastructure, energy-conversion inefficiencies, and the price of the fuel at the pump. —

Harri Weber, Popular Science, 30 Oct. 2024 Record-high prices at the pump dealt a financial scare to consumers and created a political wound the Biden-Harris administration has struggled to mend ever since. —

Matt Egan, CNN, 29 Oct. 2024 What is going on with energy prices this year? Oil futures rose quickly to start the year and hit $85 per barrel in April, but it’s been almost all downhill from there and prices at the pump are following along. —

Samuel Burke, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for at the pump