Diesel Excise Tax Rates by State, 2008

by Catherine Mulbrandon on February 20, 2010

Day 20 of 28 Days of Tax Data

From The Department of Energy

Ranking the state tax on gasoline from the lowest (Alaska $0.08) to the highest (Pennsylvania $0.381)

Tagged as: Bar Chart, Energy, Gasoline, Tax Rates, United States

http://none ezra abrams

in the first graph at this url
http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2006/01/27/changes-in-household-income-by-quintiles/
you make an elementary mistake in data presentation: you present numbers that vary in magnitude on a linear axis graph; this makes changes in the small numbers hard to see and exagerates changes in the big numbers.
i may not spell well, but you don’t deserve to comment on economics untillyou learn how to present data properly

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