Gas Prices Jump Above $4.60, the Highest in America

By Douglas A. McIntyre Published Mar 10, 10:15AM EDT

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Gasoline prices are much higher in some states than in others.
Here are the 15 states with the highest gas prices now.
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Gasoline prices have been drifting downward recently, particularly as crude oil prices have fallen. According to AAA, the average price of a gallon of regular is $3.09, down from $3.39 a year ago. In some states, the price is much higher, depending on gasoline refinery capacity and state gas taxes.

Gas prices jumped higher last May and December as the price of a barrel of crude moved above $80 a barrel. Today, that figure is $67.

According to GasBuddy, California has the highest average gas price, at $4.64, and the highest tax per gallon, at $0.8655. The national average is $0.5709.

These are the 15 states with the highest gas prices:

California (4.641)
Hawaii (4.567)
Washington (4.027)
Nevada (3.719)
Oregon (3.681)
Alaska (3.390)
Arizona (3.362)
Pennsylvania (3.248)
Illinois (3.176)
District of Columba (3.148)
Idaho (3.145)
Montana (3.140)
Vermont (3.105)
New York (3.091)
Maine (3.057)

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.