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Article: Rising gasoline prices pinch communities
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- May 23, 2004
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Rising gasoline prices pinch communities, schools
'Squeeze is on' with budgets already tight
By NICOLE SWEENEY nsweeney@journalsentinel.com, Journal Sentinel
Sunday, May 23, 2004
Rising gasoline prices might have some Racine County folks
grumbling as they fill up their cars.
But for local school districts and municipalities, which need
thousands of gallons of gasoline for everything from school buses to
gravel trucks, the steep prices at the pump could spell trouble for
budgets already stretched thin.
"The squeeze is on," said Gary Bishop, the Racine Unified School
District's director of buildings and grounds.
The City of Racine buys $650,000 worth of fuel a year, some of
which it sells to ...