Gas Prices: A State-by-State Look

by Alyssa Oursler | October 2, 2012 6:15 am

Back in August, gas prices rose so much that the consumer price index posted its largest jump in the past three years. Now, September has flown by, October is getting under way, the leaves are changing and … well … little else is.

Sure, the national average price of a gasoline is cheaper that it was a month ago and even a week ago, but its $3.78-per-gallon price tag is still significantly more — 35 cents more, to be exact — than consumers were shelling out at the same time last year.

As usual, things are the worst in hard-to-reach states like Hawaii and Alaska, and the clean-energy focused state of California. While most of us are bemoaning the idea of $4 gas, Hawaii is 40 cents over that threshold already.

Prices have jumped pretty much across the board, too. Even South Carolina — the cheapest state of all — is paying around 7 cents more than it was toward the end of August.

Below is a state-by-state roster of average gas prices from AAA’s Daily Fuel Gauge Report[1], listed from most to least expensive:

State	Price		State	Price		State	Price
Hawaii	$4.417		Nebraska	$3.867		Ohio	$3.723
California	$4.168		Minnesota	$3.865		Maryland	$3.709
Connecticut	$4.123		South Dakota	$3.860		Oklahoma	$3.703
New York	$4.107		Wisconsin	$3.859		Florida	$3.700
Alaska	$4.069		West Virginia	$3.856		Arizona	$3.677
Washington	$4.029		Idaho	$3.850		Kentucky	$3.669
Oregon	$3.987		Iowa	$3.810		New Mexico	$3.658
Rhode Island	$3.968		Nevada	$3.801		Virginia	$3.619
North Dakota	$3.967		New Jersey	$3.797		Missouri	$3.610
Maine	$3.955		Montana	$3.788		Georgia	$3.606
Illinois	$3.941		Utah	$3.786		Arkansas	$3.590
Vermont	$3.937		Kansas	$3.778		Louisiana	$3.588
Massachusetts	$3.914		Indiana	$3.777		Texas	$3.549
District of Columbia	$3.890		Delaware	$3.764		Tennessee	$3.545
Pennsylvania	$3.882		North Carolina	$3.742		Alabama	$3.543
Michigan	$3.879		Colorado	$3.739		Mississippi	$3.530
New Hampshire	$3.869		Wyoming	$3.725		South Carolina	$3.506

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