TABLE 4—

Annual Consumer Unit Fuel Expenditures by Income as a Percentage of 2008 Pretax Income: Health Impact Assessment of a Cap-and-Trade Framework, California, December 2010

Income Quintile	Mean Pretax Income, $	Electricity Expenditures, %	Natural Gas Expenditures, %	Fuel Oil and Other Fuel Expenditures, %	Total Fuel Expenditures, %
First quintile	10 263	8.9	3.0	0.9	12.8
Second quintile	27 442	4.3	1.5	0.6	6.4
Third quintile	47 196	2.8	1.1	0.4	4.2
Fourth quintile	74 090	2.0	0.8	0.3	3.2
Fifth quintile	158 652	1.2	0.5	0.2	1.9

Source. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Expenditure Survey 2008. Available at: http://www.bls.gov/cex/data.htm. Accessed July 20, 2010.