Post #525701 by The Gnomon on Fri, Apr 23, 2010 8:16 AM

From a Blog.GasBuddy.com article by Patrick DeHaan, quoted and paraphrased.

"Ever feel that you're paying a higher percent of your income towards gasoline than people in other states? You might be right. Using average incomes for each state and using the average gasoline consumption so far this year (131.04 gallons so far in 2010), let's see what states are paying the most and the least of their income towards gasoline."

#01 New Jersey 2.2%
#02 Connecticut 2.25%
#03 Massachusetts 2.32%
#04 TIED, Wyoming and Maryland 2.41%
#05 TIED, Wyoming and Maryland 2.41%
#06 Virginia 2.58%
#07 New York 2.64%
#08 Colorado 2.66%
#09 New Hampshire 2.66%
#10 Minnesota 2.79%
#11 Delaware 2.87%
#12 Rhode Island 2.90%
#13 Illinois 2.92%
#14 Kansas 2.97%
#15 Washington 2.97%
#16 Pennsylvania 2.98%
#17 North Dakota 3.00%
#18 Texas 3.03%
#19 California 3.04%
#20 South Dakota 3.05%
#21 Missouri 3.08%
#22 Nebraska 3.10%
#23 Oklahoma 3.10%
#24 Florida 3.12%
#25 Iowa 3.12%
#26 Nevada 3.12%
#27 Vermont 3.12%
#28 Louisiana 3.14%
#29 Wisconsin 3.19%
#30 Ohio 3.21%
#31 Maine 3.24%
#32 Tennessee 3.29%
#33 Georgia 3.32%
#34 North Carolina 3.35%
#35 Oregon 3.37%
#36 Alabama 3.41%
#37 Indiana 3.41%
#38 Michigan 3.41%
#39 Alaska 3.44%
#40 Montana 3.45%
#41 New Mexico 3.46%
#42 South Carolina 3.46%
#43 Arizona 3.48%
#44 Arkansas 3.48%
#45 Hawaii 3.52%
#46 Kentucky 3.57%
#47 West Virgina 3.69%
#48 Mississippi 3.73%
#49 Idaho 3.74%
#50 Utah 3.82%

Almost forgot to point out that they did not include the District of Columbia. The highest gas prices in Maryland and Virginia are in the National Capital Metropolitan Area surrounding DC. DC has the highest gas prices of them all. In all, the DC area also has among the highest incomes in the country, so the percentage of income devoted toward gasoline might not be that out of line with the averages for MD and VA roughly.

By contrast, here is a GasBuddy heat map of gas prices in the lower 48 from today.

[ Edited by: The Gnomon 2010-04-23 09:45 ]