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Funny, huh: Gasoline Prices Down in Battleground States

American1st Wrote: Oct 31, 2012 9:04 AM
Actually, it's not funny. Below are the largest oil and gas contributors during the 2008 election cycle to Obama. Organization Contributions Exxon Mobil $117,946 Chevron 77,875 BP 71,051 Shell 64,661 ConocoPhillips 17,600 Marathon Oil 15,437 Hess Corp. 6,950 Anadarko 5,800 Valero Energy 4,850 Occidental 4,400 Petroleum Sunoco, Inc. 4,209 American 3,970 Gas Association Devon Energy 1,700 Chesapeake 1,200 Energy Williams Co 500

Six months ago, we used Google's Fusion Tables to create interactive heat maps to visualize the actual price of a gallon of gasoline across the United States. We're updating that exercise today:

Average Price of a Gallon of Gasoline at the Pump

Our first chart visualizes the average price that consumers are paying per gallon of gasoline at the pump when they fill up their vehicle's gas tanks, as of when we sampled it on 21 October 2012 as recorded by GasBuddy: