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A ranking published in Forbes magazine places the Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill region as the second-worst gas-guzzling metro in the U.S.
The worst location: Raleigh-Durham.
Writer Christopher Helman devised the survey with data from the Center for Neighborhood Technology, a Chicago-based think tank that studies the costs of living and working in cities across the country.
Helman's methodology was to use the Center for Neighborhood Technology's data on the average number of miles driven annually by households.
He said the data show Charlotte area households drive an average of 21,500 miles annually. At $4 a gallon for gas, he says, that equates to $4,244 in fuel expenses annually per household, based on 20.3 mpg.
That's just a hair behind Raleigh-Durham's household average of 21,800 annual miles - which means annual fuel expenses of $4,304, or $60 more than the Charlotte area.
At the low end of the ranking is New York, where average households use 481 gallons.
