GasBuddy has seen tktk Patrick De Haan

Patrick De Haan spends his days "monitoring the situation" for global oil prices.

He told Business Insider he's parsing through data points, prices, and headlines to spot trends.

GasBuddy's downloads have skyrocketed as gas prices keep climbing. They just saw a 384% increase.

The internet's trending " monitoring the situation " meme usually features someone sternly squinting at a phone or a computer screen.

In the real world, Americans are squinting at a more unsettling trend: rapidly rising gas prices .

For Patrick De Haan, those two trends overlap in his career.…