Look at this map and notice the progressive areas of the country:

[lildreamer316]

They all have the higher/highest gas prices. I know it's related to supply lines and population/cost of living, but damn! It's just so...obvious!(except for Utah...)
Yes, I've been following the threads that discussed this, but I just thought that this really gives a visual. It's interesting.

http://www.gasbuddy.com/gb_gastemperaturemap.aspx

[waiting for hope]

1. Wow -

Utah is still red.

[swag]

2. The progressive areas also have fewer feral hogs

and less kudzu.

But give it time.

[MasonJar]

3. It looked to me like there were several western RED states that

had high prices.

[lildreamer316]

4. Yes, I know..

hence my assertion that it's mostly related to supply lines; population and etc.; but I'm not sure how to explain things like ALL of NY state? and the HUGE distinction between the line at west Texas and the next states over. Eh, well; I have no problem admitting I may be off the mark; but I do think it's probably a bit more polarized than it really has to be.

[sweetheart]

6. poorer states have cheaper gas prices

Maybe the gas prices are slighly progressive, for 'progressives' are usually well educated
middle class'ers, the new generatino at least, the university elites that know the
difference between liberalism and conservatism, and these places, new york, CA, have more
money, maybe because they are progressive, and then progressive fuel prices wax it off.

[The Deacon]

5. Actually

In Kansas (a notoriously Red State) the four "Bluest" counties have the lowest prices. And the "Bluest" counties in Georgia (where I'm sitting right now is represented by a liberal Democrat with no real Republican opponent - but has the lowest prices in the state, having just gone down another 12 cents) enjoy the same low prices as the "Reddest" counties.
Something else is driving gas prices - but I don't think it has anything to do with supply & demand or with actual cost of delivery. Haven't yet seen a correlation with anything that survives an examination closer than second order (as examining by county rather than state on this map.)
Any other ideas? Why would New Mexico, with extensive oil & gas fields and next to no tax on gasoline, be paying higher prices at the pump than New York - with no appreciable production? Why would Sedgwick County, Kansas (which had its last refinery, the Derby Refinery, closed 20 years ago) be paying less for gasoline than the counties next door - where the refineries are located?

[lildreamer316]

7. There was a thread...

<she starts off infamously....> discussing this very subject, which I have just discovered I did not bookmark like a good little DUer. That's what prompted me to post this, but the thread is several days old. Lemme see if I can resurrect it (if I can remember any thing about it other than the subject). It adresses your questions better than I can.

[kentuck]

8. Some states have higher state taxes per gallon on gasoline...

For example, CO is one of the highest.

[The Deacon]

9. Yes, But That Doesn't Work

Because Wisconsin has higher taxes than New Mexico, no native oil production yet consistently pays lower prices at the pump (I know because when I lived in WI I compared prices regularly with my brother in Albuquerque.)

[WyLoochka]

10. WY, where I am is NOT

progressive. And it is a heavy producer of oil and gas. But the oil is mostly piped/railshipped out for refining and then brought back in, adding to the cost and pumping up profits for the oil cos.

These people here should get a clue. The oil companies are not their friends. This has been going on for over 100 years, so I don't what it would take to wake them up.