[Ryland]

National average for gasoline right now is $2.98 per gallon according to the EPA web site for MPG and national average for electrical rates are around $0.12 per kwh if you look at the yellow energy label on appliances, why these standards were not included in the article as a baseline confuses me a little, or include the electrical rates of each city along with the gas prices.
He expands on his math a little if you fallow the link at the bottom of the article but I feel like a poor job was done, unless you happen to live in one of those cities he wrote about.
I wrote to the editors at Home Power asking them to include more information next time, they normally do a good job so I'm not sure why they let this one slip by.