3 days ago
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This is a guest opinion column
Here in Alabama, we don’t need an economist to tell us gas prices are punishing. We feel it every time we pull up to the pump, every time we pay a little more at the grocery store, every time a small business passes along a fuel surcharge it can’t afford to eat. A UAB economist said it plainly last week: for families of limited means, gasoline is something you buy no matter the price. “They have the least bandwidth to adjust.” That’s the truth — and it’s exactly why I’m encouraging Alabama’s congressional delegation to vote YES on the biofuel reform bill coming to the House floor on May 13.
