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Rural Alaska and High Energy Costs

ANCHORAGE — While I was working on a piece about Gov. Sarah Palin’s energy policies, one local pointed me to the story of a town of about 300 residents on the Aleutians, called Adak, about 1,300 miles southwest of Anchorage.
While there are tanks of diesel standing by, the town cannot afford to buy the fuel [...]