TIL, American who live in Mississippi, Wyoming, Arkansas, and Alabama spend the highest portion of their income on gasoline. Californians, despite high taxes, are closer to the national average.

I assume that is because of the poverty levels in Mississippi, Arkansas and Alabama.

Not sure what to say about Wyoming. I wonder if Indian Reservations squew the numbers for Wyoming.

Let's see... this shows the ratio of money spent on gas to your income levels. That means a higher ratio is more painful when gas prices spike and less painful with a lower ratio.

9 of the top 10 states for highest/worst ratio are Republican Trumpland. 9 out of the top 10 states for lowest/best ratio are Democrat majority states (with Pennsylvania being swing).

Republicans are really playing some 4D chess by allowing Trump to start a war nobody wants that causes huge gas price spikes when it hurts their base the most... months before an election where their jobs are on the line.

californians, despite high state income taxes, have lower other taxes. On net they pay less in tax than texans, who have no state income tax. check out ITEP.org's Who Pays report every year. they run a report that totals the entire tax regime (income, sales, property, fuel, the whole shebang) in a state, including federal taxes, runs a sample family's books at various income levels, sees what their taxes (all of them) would be, then makes a big report for the entire country.

In Texas, if you are poor you pay more of your income toward taxes than the rich. That's because the graduated income tax rate most states have corrects for the regressive tax structures in just about every other tax. Texas has no income tax. You see the same thing in Washington State. In California, the rich and the poor pay about the same percentage of their income toward tax, and it is lower than Texas at every income level. Funny that.

Mississippi, Wyoming, Arkansas, and Alabama

So once again, these complete dumbasses voted against their own interests with a consistency, and somehow are NOW unhappy about all that..?

• California is relatively-wealthy.

• I would say pretty confidently, without digging up figures, that Californians have a higher rate of using fuel-efficient vehicles. I know that they have the highest rate of BEV usage in the US. A lot of the fuel-inefficient vehicles are (large) pickup trucks, and California has a relatively low share of pickup truck ownership, whereas Wyoming has the highest.

They should have the highest bike usage and best bike infrastructure in the US, then. 😔

Correction: thanks to lower taxes on the average Joe, and higher taxes on the wealthiest...