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Sky-high prices for fuel, concrete, steel slow road projects.

Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
Publication Date: 21-JUL-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
All over the state rising energy costs are playing havoc with road construction. The construction and maintenance budgets of cities, counties and the state are struggling to keep up.

In Jackson County the road manager anticipates 'a $45,000 to $50,000 shortfall in his fuel budget. In May the county's road department requested an additional $126,900 to put into the fuel fund and has another as yet undetermined request pending for August.

"No one saw it going up so much," said county spokesman Ken Flanagan. "We do a lot of our own paving, but we've got to seriously look at our work and how much we will be...

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