http://973thedawg.com Acadiana's Best Country Tue, 21 May 2013 03:20:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://973thedawg.com/rising-gas-prices-good-or-bad-for-lafayette/ http://973thedawg.com/rising-gas-prices-good-or-bad-for-lafayette/#comments Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:19:41 +0000 Bruce Mikells http://973thedawg.com/?p=11329 We have learned over the past year with tragedy in the Gulf of Mexico that while not everyone in South Louisiana works in the oil field. We all have purse strings that are tied to petroleum, the life blood of the Lafayette Economy. The administration's moratorium on drilling has crippled if not fatally wounded local shops and business' from machine shops to daycare.Now that oil prices are starting to rise and profits are being made what is the trade off?

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