If you’ve ever driven cross-country you know how much the price of gasoline can vary, ranging from nearly $4.00 in San Francisco to just a hair over $3.00 in Roanoke, Virginia. What’s the deal? Give credit to higher taxes, distance from supply, and type of fuel. Taxes Why Gasoline Prices Vary So Much From State-To-State Expand The map above comes from The American Petroleum Institute via ExxonMobil so take it with a coastline-cover-in-oil-sized grain of salt, but it’s accurate to say that the difference in taxes does play a role as everyone plays the federal rate of 18.4 cents-per-gallon (well, not Tesla drivers), but consumers in California have, for instance, pay 47 cents more per gallon than drivers in Alaska. But as this map from Gas Buddy (at the top of this post) shows the difference is greater than just […]