If anyone is pumping Diesel fuel at the gas station these days, they have seen peaks of $4.50 a gallon. Experts are predicting that could hit $5 a gallon very soon. Which means that when contracts are up on the fuel contracts that the BOE has in the next year, sticker shock will be an understatement. Which is why the BOE needs to reevaluate its school bus routes and plan for better fuel efficiencies.
Part of that planning process had better include the parents. For some reason in the last decade or so, parents have collectively decided that door to door kid transportation is necessary. Whatever happened to kids walking to school? Or walking to the bus stop?
