What % of your income is devoted to gasoline?

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 ]

What % of your income is devoted to gasoline?

0%. I don't own a car. For long trips with friends I buy gas, but as payment for general running around on the weekends they're glad to just see me do my "Elvis at the stripper pole" dance. It makes everyone so happy.

On 2010-04-23 10:16, woofmutt wrote:
What % of your income is devoted to gasoline?

0%. I don't own a car. For long trips with friends I buy gas, but as payment for general running around on the weekends they're glad to just see me do my "Elvis at the stripper pole" dance. It makes everyone so happy.

OK. What % of your income is devoted to rum?

I'm guessing more than 0%. 8)

Poster courtesy of Bohemiann

0%, I'm "that guy"

Looks like about 4%...

As much as I gripe about the cost of gasoline in California, 2-4% of your income really isn't that much for the freedom that it buys. I think the average person probably spends as much on Starbucks or bottled water or running the beer fridge in the garage.

Here's a related study:

It's curious how New York ended up with the lowest per capita consumption, even beating out Hawaii. I believe this was prepared based on 2008 statistics.

I would think that makes sense as lots of people in New York don't have cars and take the subway.

Jeff(btd)

That's NYC, but there's more to NY than the Big Apple. Lots of open spaces out in upstate NY. When you look at states that are home to our most populous cities (CA, TX, GA, IL, and NY), IL and NY seem to have urban areas with the magnitude to drastically reduce these states' overall consumption.

You want to try paying UK prices, then you will really know what fuel poverty is...

At current exchange rates it's approx $9 per gallon.

Fortunately, 'only need about 4 gallons per week driving to-fro work.

At about $2.95 a gallon, that's livable.