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Post by redwolf on Jun 9, 2008 15:47:38 GMT -6
Rural U.S. Takes Worst Hit as Gas Tops $4 AverageBy CLIFFORD KRAUSS TCHULA, Miss. — Gasoline prices reached a national average of $4 a gallon for the first time over the weekend, adding more strain to motorists across the country.
But the pain is not being felt uniformly. Across broad swaths of the South, Southwest and the upper Great Plains, the combination of low incomes, high gas prices and heavy dependence on pickup trucks and vans is putting an even tighter squeeze on family budgets.www.nytimes.com/2008/06/09/business/09gas.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin
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Post by Cactus Jack on Jun 9, 2008 16:11:43 GMT -6
..clever how the politicians talk about funding mass transit (incl. Amtrac) in populated Northeast states but cannot seem to come up with a viable option for rural Americans, and those living in the West, where sometimes one's nearest neighbors are 5+ miles down the road, or where the land devoted to farming (that feeds Americans & many in the World) are great distances from town or metropolitan business centers.
Grant you gasoline prices are somewhat lower here in Texas $3.83 for regular unleaded (current 6/8/8) -- logical since most of the refineries which make motor fuels (gasoline, diesel, aviation kerosene) are located in Tx & Louisianna ..but b/c many of use dirt farmers need HD trucks and pickups to earn a measly living (far below what the middlemen are making selling the crops and livestock we raise) is still hurts to shell out $100 every few days to fill up the vehicle that's not only our work truck but also the family mode of transport.
Maybe it is as Barack Hussein O'bama sez, we rural ppl really don't matter to the scheme of American society.
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