New York Times has a nice visualization of how the share of people’s income spent on gas varies across the USA. Their map shows that while gas prices vary across the USA, the amount of people’s income spent of gas varies more. A small part of people’s income is spent in rich urban areas, while gas costs are over 10% in poor rural areas.
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Visualizing gas policies
GasBuddy has an interactive map of gas prices by county in the USA and by census division in Canada. The USA map shown below has a lot more variation. But there are also interesting differences in not only price, but in variation in price among states (for a closer look).