"Gasoline prices reached a national average of $4 a gallon for the first time over the weekend, adding more strain to motorists across the country.
But the pain is not being felt uniformly. Across broad swaths of the South, Southwest and the upper Great Plains, the combination of low incomes, high gas prices and heavy dependence on pickup trucks and vans is putting an even tighter squeeze on family budgets."
Click here for the full article from the New York Times.
The New York Times analyzed the proportion of income spent on gas by county. The map illustrates that many poor and rural areas are hit quite hard by spending high percentages of income on gas, while people in other places with high gas prices, such as California, are spending a smaller proportion of income on gas. Click here to see the map from the New York Times.
