June 20, 2008
Rising Cost of Gasoline Pinches Students at Rural Community Colleges
The 230 miles of Texas highway linking the plains of Lamesa to the hill country of Junction is familiar terrain to local college students accustomed to traveling long distances to class.
But with gasoline prices averaging $4 per gallon, students in the community-college district that stretches between those two west Texas towns, like their peers in other rural communities, are feeling the sting.
Aware of the increasing burden of fuel costs on their students, the administrators
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