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California is relatively-wealthy.
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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.
California and New York are the poorest states based on median wage…
Is that just a lie?
For 2023:
California - $96k
Mississippi - $54k
Both can be true.
The data can say whatever you want if you torture it enough
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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.
California also treats capital gains at the (higher) rate of regular income, which is somewhat unusual, whereas Texas has no state-level capital gains tax, which is also somewhat unusual.
capital gains taxes are generally rolled into income taxes, so that’s why texas has none
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.
Wyoming resident here. The distances are vast, the altitude is high and depending where you are the inclines don’t mess around.
Also because everyone “needs” an F-950.
Ahh, so your car just sucks down a lot of gas!
Ah, the smell of cooking brake pads on a long downhill trek!
Can use engine braking.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine_braking
Gasoline engines
The term “engine braking” refers to the braking effect that occurs in gasoline engines when the accelerator pedal is released. This causes fuel injection to cease and the throttle valve to close almost completely, greatly restricting forced airflow from, for example, a turbocharger. The restriction causes a strong manifold vacuum which the cylinders have to work against, sapping much of the potential energy out of the system over time and producing the majority of the engine-braking effect.[1] This vacuum manifold effect can often be amplified by a down-shift, which induces a faster spinning drivetrain to engage with the engine.
Engine braking is a viable method of controlling the speed at which a vehicle travels downhill. By shifting to a lower gear in a manual transmission, or applying “low” mode on an automatic transmission, engine braking reduces the need to repeatedly apply the foot brake, lowering the risk of the brakes overheating.[2]
Modern cars don’t seem to provide much braking from the engine, in my experience. Still some, though.
Not the poverty levels, the V8 pick up levels.
Lower income, more driving, less fuel efficient cars, more sprawl, worse public transit.
Most of the towns are tiny. The need for public transport is near 0. I drive it regularly and the amount of towns under 50 population is crazy.
maybe their cousins live farther away
LOL!!!
Yes, but that is combined with driving longer distances for commutes and other crap.
The jobs in Mississippi don’t pay worth a damn. It doesn’t help that employers secretly hate their employees for costing them money. If they could pay you less than minimum wage, they would.
It’s the same for white collar and blue collar workers. Maximum exploitation in order to reach quarterly earnings goals.
Mississippi and Alabama have petro-chemical industries (and defence) that pay handsomely. They have some of the highest wage levels in the Union.
probably because those companies cannot survive in states with more regulations, and i doubt the country bumpkin is getting hired at these jobs.
squew
I’ve never seen it spelled that way before. Is that a regional thing, or just a typo?
It’s “skew”, fyi.
Somewhat surprisingly, there’s no Q in skew. Maybe it’s just that Wyoming is so empty
*skew
And yeah that does make a lot of sense. For Wyoming honestly it’s also just a massively spread out state compared to nearly anywhere else
*squaw
*racist douchebag
Too easily offended and ready to attack you are
Or old ski enthusiast.
Sqaw Valley recently rebranded to Palisades Tahoe.
Exactly. Hence the “old.”
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.
if its to keep epstein out the news, which the GOP and many CONSERVATIVES, politicians are in, there are all for it.
The spikes in gas prices and health insurance premiums are doing more than any presidential debates have done in the past decade. Consequences are needed to get the attention of conservatives and moderates. Unfortunately, most MAGA supports are far too brainwashed.
apparently the subsidies for the preniums were for the aca during covid, which gave more coverage, after it was removed the insurance almost immediately Spiked the coverages back to way above pre-2019.
Don’t worry, their all spouting off about how “the president doesn’t control gas prices”. Remember when gas went up under Biden and all the magats said it’s his fault? Now their throwing back about “well the president didn’t control gas prices then but now he does when it’s trump?” Fuck I kind of wish I was half that stupid maybe I wouldn’t be so pissed off right now
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…?
Remember when gas prices spiked after Russia invaded Ukraine? Biden’s fault. But when Trump invades Iran and gas prices spike? Also Biden’s fault!
/s
They should have the highest bike usage and best bike infrastructure in the US, then. 😔
