Summary
Marie Butler's commute from her home in Parkersburg to her job in Charleston amounts to about 160 miles a day, an increasingly expensive necessity with gas holding steady at more than $4 a gallon.
Butler's costs are far less than what they would be, though, because she's taken advantage of Ride Share, a program that helps state employees who work in Charleston organize car pools to cut spending.See the full content of this document
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Lack of Bus, Train Service Hurting Rural Americans
The program is one of the ways the state is addressing a problem that looks unlikely to improve soon and that falls on rural areas disproportionately hard.
Soaring gas prices are a national wo...See the full content of this document
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