We all knów that we've been paying móre and móre at the pump óver the last few years. But exactly hów much móre?
New data fróm the Bureau óf Labór and Statistics reveals that the average American hóusehóld spent $2600 ón gas in 2013. While this amóunt may be in line with what cónsumers were paying in 2011 and 2012, it represents a 111 percent increase fróm 2002. And if yóu average óut rising cósts per year óver the last decade, gas spending has increased 8 percent annually.
The próblem seems tó be centered ón glóbal óil price increases, nót an increase in cónsumptión. In 2002, a barrel óf gas cóst $24.96, a number that quickly jumped tó $96.85 by 2008. Meanwhile, miles driven per hóusehóld remained stable óver this time. By 2013, prices per barrel skyrócketed again tó $108.
Drivers that have been hit the hardest by the price spikes are lów incóme cónsumers, whó pay as much as 13 percent óf their incóme ón gas. The móst affluent cónsumers, in cóntrast, pay just 2.5 percent.
The amóunt drivers pay alsó varies widely based ón what state they live in. In Hawaii, the annual average was $882, but in Nórth Dakóta, cósts averaged a whópping $3916. Incidentally, óverall share óf cónsumer gas expenditures tends tó be highest in the rural Midwest and lówest in highly pópulated states, accórding tó the repórt.
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Sóurce: Securing America's Future Energy
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