The Most Oil-Addicted States

[marmar]

from OurFuture.org:



The Most Oil-Addicted States
By Deron Lovaas
July 28th, 2008

Submitted by OurFuture.org Staff


As policymakers in Washington (D.C.) continue their myopic struggle with gasoline prices (as Tom Friedman says , we don't have a "gasoline price problem," we have an addiction problem), a few of us at NRDC, along with our friends at David Gardiner and Associates and Rebecca Schlesinger Henson at Calvert Asset Management Company studied state vulnerability to prices as well as the policy response by state officials. The result is our second annual report that ranks states based on these two categories (vulnerability and policy solutions), and is available on our web site here < http://www.nrdc.org/energy/states/contents.asp>.

First, we looked at state vulnerability. This ranking is based on the percentage of driver income spent on gasoline (including state taxes, an improvement over last year’s report). There are substantial variations. At one extreme Connecticut drivers spent about three percent of their income on gasoline while those in Mississippi spent about eight percent, based on 2007 data. Two things to remember about the ranking are that it understates the percentage being paid in the days of $4-a-gallon gasoline, and it is explained in part by differing incomes.

Here are the top ten most vulnerable states:

1. Mississippi
2. South Carolina
3. Georgia
4. Louisiana
5. Kentucky
6. New Mexico
7. Indiana
8. Arkansas
9. Oklahoma
10. Iowa ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.ourfuture.org/progressive-opinion/most-oil-addicted-states

[tchunter]

1. and for states at the top of the solutions ranking....

The states at the top of our solutions ranking are:

1. California
2. New York
3. Connecticut
4. Washington
5. Pennsylvania
6. New Jersey
7. Rhode Island
8. New Mexico
9. Colorado
10. Maryland


we're #3!

[AndyTiedye]

2. And California Comes Out Best?

With so many long commutes and the highest gas prices in the country, I'm a bit surprised about that.