# Wyoming/Utah/Montana/Idaho gasoline prices: why so cheap?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 24, 2006, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wyoming-utah-montana-idaho-gasoline-prices-why-so-cheap/354020 "2006-04-24T18:18:44Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wyoming-utah-montana-idaho-gasoline-prices-why-so-cheap/354020/21 "2006-04-25T18:39:58Z")

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> [@Spartydog](#):
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> From Paul Krugman’s op-ed piece in the NY Times on April 21, 2006:
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> Granted, I erred in the exact makeup of the states. Substitute Montana for Nebraska. However, that probably does little to change the coincidence of Bush support to low gasoline prices. Of course, from there we are into chicken/egg territory.

You didn’t err; you coincidentally showed that 3 out of the 4 states just happen to have cheaper gas prices that happen to have 50+% support for Bush.

I try to look, but I bet those states had some of the lowest gas prices when Clinton, Bush I, Reagan, Ford, Carter, etc. held office.

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