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Thank god we didn’t get Kamala. She would have raised gas prices 25%.
I dunno, a mentally challenged man in makeup told me that if I voted for Kamala there would be a war. I voted for her and, well, now there is a war.
Good map of which states the actual gas price is more/less inflated by taxes and other costs. Cali has some of the highest prices but the actual gas price doesn’t affect the percentage as much because of all the other hidden costs built in by the state taxes and regulations.
Well we should all sacrifice for the sake of our FREEDOM!!!
/s
Ok is not ok
Gas is $3.59 around Tulsa but what really bothers me is the diesel bein $5.19.
Out here in IB, CA, US, gas runs between $5.59 to $5.99 for regular and premium, and diesel is $6.99
That will probably be coming here soon enough.
Trump voting states get screwed again, like clockwork. Poor morons cant catch a break.
“Catching a break” implies luck is involved. They asked for this to happen with their votes
Gas was already more expensive in the States where it went up the least.
Americans shitting their pants when their fuel still costs half the amount than elsewhere in the world.
I never understood why everyone here is so obsessed with gas prices. Like driving out of your way to save 5c/gal… Maybe it’s because I don’t commute in a massive Chevy APC type truck/suv.
Largely it’s because public transit basically doesn’t exist once you get outside cities that have a population of at least 750k - 1mil. So the price of gas going up increases the price of everything you do because the only feasible/safe option is to drive yourself everywhere.
My point is the difference is trivial. 20 gallon tank, you drive out of the way because that station sells gas 5c cheaper. Congrats, you’ve saved a dollar and burned more gas.
I don’t drive a gas guzzler, either. But with European gas prices, every cent counts.
Yeah but it’s balanced out by them having to pay for cancer treatment.
Only if they can pay for it
Don’t let this distract you from the fact that Donald J Trump rapes children.
So at first glance this chart looked a little odd… some of the colors were wrong for the northeast and then I saw some more states shaded incorrectly.
SO I went and found the original. I think
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-gas-prices-since-the-iran-war-state-by-state/
If nothing else, your version has more pixels. Thank you.
I’m so happy for them to suffer their consequences of their vote, though I know in my heart of hearts CA is only lowest because we tax our gas and the raw increase is less a % as a result.
Fun fact, most of US doesn’t even use middle east gas, this is just market forces pushing prices up due to scarcity. I bet oil people are getting quite rich off these war crimes.
Gas prices: if they go low, we go high!
This makes it seem that red states are being hit hardest on this which doesn’t seem like that should play as large of a role in gas prices as, say, infrastructure.
Am I seeing a false pattern? Or is there a set of policy measures that blue states have implemented that red states haven’t to prevent gas price spikes?
Its percent difference. If you add a buck across the board (arbitrary number) the price increase percentage is higher if you started off lower.
Maybe blue states had already higher prices so the % of growth is lower
I don’t think that’s it.
Don’t want to share anything identifiable, but I get semi-regular updates on things in 3 parts of the US. So anecdotally speaking, the chart lines up almost perfectly with what I’m seeing across those areas. Before the war, there was maybe a 5-10% (~$2.50 in Republican vs $2.75 in Democrat) spread in gas costs, but now its almost 30% spread (~$4.25 in republican vs $3.25 in democrat).
I don’t think that’s it.
It is. Gas in Iowa right now is still cheaper than it was a year ago in California, your anecdotal data notwithstanding.
$2 a gallon. 50% increase means $3 a gallon.
$4 a gallon 25% increase means $5 a gallon.
Both a flat $1 increase. The large differences in nationwide gas prices don’t really apply to the increase we are feeling from the Iran war. The price is basically increasing flat across the board because the other differences are remaining constant but the cost of a barrel is still increasing by the same amount everywhere.
My 2 cents though. Someone feel free to tell me I’m wrong.
You nailed it. Percent increase is a terrible metric when the starting values are dissimilar but subjected to similar forces.
