Gas Prices Map of the United States


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Gas prices have topped $4 in the city where I live, so I was wondering just how high are gas prices across the United States? Gas Buddy, a website dedicated to spotting cheap gas prices, has the answer.

Here's a "temperature" map of gas prices in the United States, broken down into counties. California, unsurprisingly is the "hottest": Link - via Treehugger, thanks Chris!


Four measly dollars a GALLON? If I were you I'd get a big barrel and fill it right up; it's going way higher than that. Oh yes it is.

In the UK at the moment we have just almost (but within a month will have) hit £6.00 per gallon. Six pounds. That's roughly three times what you are all moaning about.

Get used to it, or buy a bike.
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fourstar -

That's some grade-A trolling, right there. The US has, within its borders and EEZs, a massive amount of oil and natural gas, and it's easier to ship oil here than to England. We also don't get half our oil from a pipeline controlled and taxed by neo-Soviet Russia. There's a reason oil is so expensive for you. Americans are pissed about the price of gas because we know how ridiculously cheap it is to produce and transport for us.
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Just watched the Enron documentary... not surprised about California. You think someone would have invented a flying car out there by now. Or built a monorail. I heart trains.
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fourstar, yes, you pay more but you also don't have as far to go as most Americans every day. The UK could fit into half my state. You probably drive 5-10 miles a day if that. It adds up on a daily basis here. Perhaps you should use that passport that you all whine about Americans never using to actually experience how big this country really is.
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This is worthless.

Actually, this is simply a map of the comparative states' taxes on gasoline -- with a bit or regional variation of prices mixed in.

Green = low state gas tax (not cheap gasoline)
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"Not to flame anybody but this map is two states shy of being the whole United States" said the Alaskan who is certain his State is not off the coast of California as most maps show but clearly not this one.
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I had been wondering why most states seem to be a particular color, but I think Kumar answered it. It's interesting to see how drastically prices change when you go from, say, California to Nevada, or from Connecticut to Massachusetts.

The latter trip I made this past weekend... wish I had seen this map beforehand, or we would have waited until Mass. to gas up!
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I haven't had a vehicle in five years. Deciding to not buy another car after my last broke down was the best decision of my life.

I don't have to worry about high gas prices, insurance, parking tickets, car accidents, speeding tickets, license plates -- and I'm much more in shape now that I'm walking & riding my bike everywhere. Sometimes I take the bus for $1.25 and it is a relaxing ride. I just listen to my mp3 player and let the driver do all of the work.

If you're worried about the high gas prices, don't be. You can survive without driving so much if worse comes to worst. Less pollution too!

- Sherine Harivandi
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"In the UK at the moment we have just almost (but within a month will have) hit £6.00 per gallon. Six pounds. That’s roughly three times what you are all moaning about."

That's like comparing apples and oranges in addition to being an old and worn out argument. Most of what you're paying for fuel is taxes used to fund numerous socialized programs.

We don't fund programs like these with the taxes we pay on fuel unlike the U.K. and the rest of Europe. No failed socialized medical programs and none of the other ludicrous programs you fund when you buy fuel via the taxes!

We get nothing for the taxes we pay on fuel. We pay for private health insurance which you don't etc. Add that alone to the ludicrous prices we're paying for fuel and you're way ahead of the game!

So quit your whining and do something over there to change the socialistic path your government has taken!

Going back to private health insurance alone would knock a huge amount off the taxes you pay on fuel!

Another benefit is that people won't have to spend months waiting their turn to see a doctor only to wind up dying before their turn comes up. Please don't tell us this doesn't happen because I have numerous friends in the U.K. and I know for a fact it does. Not too long ago a friends grandmother died waiting her turn. Had she been able to see a doctor in a reasonable amount of time instead of having to wait 3 months she'd be alive today!

Go back to the free market, drop socialism, and instead of financing every program that comes down the road with taxes on fuel! Your cost will drop dramatically!
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Hear, hear Derek. No taxes, no waste.
(54% of what I cost my French company goes to health/retirement insurance...)

Gotta go : I need to go back in line to fill up my car. The French fishing fleet is on strike, blocking gas distribution networks. They're complaining about the $9.4 p/gallon price (gas+$3.8tax+19.6%VAT).

I miss my US daily driver : an 81' Vette with a 350 block... Could not afford it here ;)
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I'm just curious how they can call it Gas Prices Map of the United States when they don't have Alaska or Hawaii on there. It more like Gas Prices Map of the Lower 48. I live in Alaska and we're paying between $3.99 to to $4.20 a gallon at the cheaper stations. Everyone seems to like to forget the last two states exist and we pay much more for our good and services than most states.
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"Go back to the free market, drop socialism, and instead of financing every program that comes down the road with taxes on fuel! Your cost will drop dramatically!"

You Yanks really like your cars, don't you. Ever heard of thinking about the well-being of your nation/community as a whole, rather than selfishly bleating about your $5 commute?

Of course, it won't matter much when the sea levels rise due to car pollution, will it? Or is global warming a socialist plot to get us to share all that hard-earned money on hippy solar power, man?

Yes, I'm being facetious, but you do all sound like a bunch of old women complaining that the price of fish isn't what it used to be.
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Fourstar, you completely ignored the biggest argument brought up: we have a much bigger country. Public transportation is wonderful if one lives in a city that provides such services, but not all that many do. I live about eighty miles from Chicago, and there is no public transportation. The nearest college is thirty miles away, and it's only a two year school, so there are no dorms. I have to drive, then, sixty miles each day I go to school. With around twenty-five mpg, I'm estimating my daily gas consumption to two and a quarter gallons. With gas a four dollars per gallon, that's ten dollars per day I spend getting to school. That adds up to a lot of money.
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@Natascha Hirsche:

That's a really good point, well made (and nicer to read than the automatic Euro political slagging of previous commenters)

However, one of the reasons we have a public transportation system in the UK (yes, even in rural areas and long distance) is because we pay a higher fuel tax. So if your fuel taxes were higher, you could have a bus service which would be cheaper and less shitty for the environment, no?

I say it again - you /really/ like your cars...
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I completely agree with you, fourstar, but our government has an aversion to things that make sense. Although I guess that's characteristic of any government.

Still, the common people have very little control over taxes. I would gladly pay more for gas if the taxes would go into public transportation, but I really can't see that happening until Alaska's reserves have been run dry.
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