Wilcox County, Alabama residents spend the highest proportion of their income on gas, an average household there spent 12.7% of income to fuel a single family vehicle. A number of Kentucky and Mississippi counties were also high on the list averaging more the 11% of the household income.
In contrast New Jersey held a near monopoly on the counties with the lowest fuel cost burden, Hunterdon, Morris and Somerset counties spending less than 2% of their income on fueling one vehicle. The combination of near zero gasoline taxes and high NY area incomes continue to offer immunity from the rising gasoline prices.
2 comments:
Poor Alabamans. So little money, so great a love of big, old American trucks.
Yeah and those 3 NJ counties are some of the richest in the nation and our gas tax is still way to low.
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