It was $3.89 this weekend when I filled up the truck. This morning going to work it was $3.85. Got me didn't they? Oh, we fill up at the half-tank mark.

Adding to the article, I have several nursing-home clients in relatively rural parts of the state, who rely on nurses and nurse aides driving in from 20, 30, 50 miles away. They are feeling the gas hike pretty hard, and are looking into buying vans to bus in their workers -- there being a general shortage of such staff in the state.

Drea at Business Pundit lists the 10 worst and 10 best states for buying gasoline, i.e., those in which gas is most and least expensive. King Banian finds, not surprisingly, a rather strong correlation between these lists and the rate of taxation imposed by states and localities

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There's a relationship between high tax states and what party is running those states, no? And therefore, the higher prices for gas are in those states run by Democrats.

NY and California, for example.

King links a story indicating that, yes, Georgia is raising gas taxes.

However, in the last year or two the savings have disappeared. My guess is that Georgia has raised its gas taxes, but I don't know that for sure. I feel kind of sheepish for not knowing since as a new resident it's the kind of thing I feel like I should be learning about.

I still travel back and forth to Huntsville, Alabama a decent amount (my employer is located there and my parents live there) and the gas prices are noticeably higher here (even in the county) than they are back in Huntsville. Not hugely so, but about 10 cents a gallon or so.

Basically:

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.