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Archive Home > 2008 > June > 09 > In poverty-stricken South, gas prices take a bigger cut from tight budgets

In poverty-stricken South, gas prices take a bigger cut from tight budgets

By Clifford Krauss / The Bulletin
June 9, 2008

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 cruel....

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