If US average spending on gas is $368 per person per month, that's 100 gallons of gas per month, or 1200 gallons a year. Typical car these days gets 30 mpg, so that's 36,000 miles a year. Even if driving a gas guzzling SUV that gets only 19mpg, that's 22,800 miles a year.

Yet according to the US DOT Federal Highway Administration, the average annual miles driven is 12,334 per year.

So the $368 that CNN claims is a lie.

Except it was per two adult/two car household, and taken at a point in 2011 when gas prices were at $3.98 a gallon.

Here's more recent numbers.

http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/05/report-u-s-households-spen...

"The Energy Information Administration reported that the average household spent $2,912 on gasoline in 2012."

Note that the 2012 number is a secondary high record (2008 held the record), and uses the actual final numbers for the full year, rather than a CNN number that cherry picked a momentary peak and extrapolated to the whole year and then never published a follow through with the actual numbers. Typical CNN! Not reliable to cite.

Anyway that's around $1500 a year per adult/car, or a bit over $100 a month. $1500 buys 408 gallons of gas, which gets you 12,240 miles at 30 mpg. Now these numbers make sense because they match what we actually know about how far people drive.