Are you better off now than 2006? No? Well, what happened in 2006? The democratic socialists took control of congress, that's what. Gas prices have soared from about 2.10 per gallon to over $4 per gallon! That's almost a one hundred percent increase in 2 years!
Thanks, nancy. Thanks for nuthing, you do-nothing, obstructionist twit.
It's not much to brag about, but Missouri has the cheapest gas in the nation right now. The average for regular gasoline is about $3.83 per gallon.
How come the Show Me State has the lowest gas prices?
Much like real estate, it's location, location, location.
Proximity to producers reduces transportation costs a little, but it also makes Missouri less susceptible to price spikes when individual refineries run into problems.
State gas taxes are low, too, but not the lowest. The feds charge everyone 18.4 cents per gallon; Missouri adds a state tax of 17.6 cents per gallon on top of the feds (Jersey is cheapest at 14.5 cents per gallon).
Plus, Missouri's large urban areas (KC & St. Louis) are required by the feds to use the much more expensive "reformulated gas" (like out in nuttyville - califonia), but most of the state is rural and utilizes 'regular', cheaper gas formulas.
Ah, but here's the kicker that will come back to bite all in the butt: ethanol. Missouri requires that all gasoline be blended with 10% corn ethanol. A nice short term fix.
But corn ethanol has a poor power-to-weight ratio which requires a greater volume to be used in order to produce the same bang for the buck. In short, your filling up more with ethanol to go the same amount of miles at the same speed when compared to gasoline. Plus, the usable liquid ethanol you get from the pump requires almost as much energy to produce it. That's called EROEI: the energy returned on energy invested. Bottom line: little or no net energy savings for the nation as a whole.
So Missouri benefits in the short term from ethanol, but the world is now crying foul because food prices are skyrocketing.
At the beginning of this year, the state implemented a new law requiring that all gasoline include 10 percent ethanol. With the price of crude oil rising much faster than that of ethanol, the new formulation may save consumers about 10 cents per gallon (PDF) relative to regular gas. But with ethanol production being blamed for rising food prices, Missouri lawmakers are debating rolling back the law—a change that might allow South Carolina or New Jersey to reclaim the title of the nation's cheapest gas.
Choose wisely. In the meantime, 'Want Change?" Then tell pelosi's do-nothing, obstructionist, terrorist enabling with petro dollars congress to drill the gulf; drill ANWAR, and build more refineries!
How much of this paint by numbers picture do we have to fill in for you people??!
