Kentucky News: NRDC- Kentucky, Indiana, More Oil Dependent
National Resources Defense Council took the number 6 of Kentucky, Indiana and number 12 on the list of more oil dependent.
In New York, a nonprofit organization, the environmental space of States on the basis of the average percentage of income paid to residents of gasoline in 2008 and the state energy policy and a variety of public transport.
Over the country, the inhabitants of spent fuel, the more they are vulnerable, when the price rises, the NRDC said.
Trends in vulnerability to rising oil prices in recent years are not encouraging, “NRDC said in the report. “The pilots from each country were stronger than they were in 2008 in 2006.”
According to NRDC research, Kentucky, residents spent 6.8 percent of their total income, an average of $ 2178.30 on gas. Indiana residents spent 6.4 percent of total revenues, an average of $ 2195.73.
Mississippi was ranked as the oil-dependent state, with residents spending to 9.1 percent of their total income, an average of $ 2702 on gasoline.
It was followed by Montana, South Carolina, Oklahoma and Louisiana. According to Kentucky in the Top 10 in Texas, New Mexico, Georgia and Arkansas.
The least oil-dependent state, according to the report, the State of Connecticut. Local residents spent 3.2 percent of their total income, an average of $ 1824.58 on gas.
In the NRDC said the state should do more to reduce oil dependency and the development of cleaner vehicles and fuel technologies.
“These measures in May, in turn, create jobs, clean energy, reduce vulnerability to rising fuel prices and reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, in NRDC said in the report.