My new electoral college prediction map

[cthulu2016]

It's actually just a map of current gas prices, but at first glance it sure looks like an electoral college map (with red and blue reversed)



http://fuelgaugereport.aaa.com/?redirectto=http://fuelgaugereport.opisnet.com/index.asp

[SoutherDem]

1. Could the oil companies be keeping gas prices high in the states

which are Obama is leading but low where Romney is leading?

Would the "market place allow that to happen"?

[longship]

2. Not really. It looks like low prices are where oil is pumped.

OK, TX, the Gulf coast. Outliers like CA are just part of the fact that everything is more expensive in CA and the rest of the west coast.

Just saying.

[HereSince1628]

3. Yep looks like where oil is pumped...as gasoline at filling stations...here is oil prod. by state

Notice North Dakota is 3rd, Montana is 12 in oil production, but in the highest cost states....Notice that Illinois and Michigan produce more oil than Virginia and Georgia. What about Georgia? Oh, no oil production!

1 Texas 49,880
2 Alaska 16,885
3 North Dakota 16,189
4 California 15,659
5 Oklahoma 6,454
6 New Mexico 6,096
7 Louisiana 5,430
8 Wyoming 4,495
9 Kansas 3,372
10 Colorado 3,319
11 Utah 2,272
12 Montana 1,823
13 Mississippi 1,822
14 Illinois 791
15 Alabama 731
16 Michigan 558
17 Arkansas 493
18 Ohio 389
19 Pennsylvania 299
20 Kentucky 198
21 Florida 184
22 Nebraska 182
23 Indiana 162
24 West Virginia 159
25 South Dakota 141
26 Nevada 34
27 New York 28
28 Tennessee 23
29 Missouri 10
30 Arizona 3
31 Virginia 1

[mahina]

4. The tankers pass us going from Indonesia to California.

But our prices are higher.

[me b zola]

5. MY electoral map would be solid gold

Gold representing the corporate candidate