Boycott for $1.30-a-Gallon Gas Divides Tiny Bee County, Texas

BEEVILLE, Texas

What they didn’t count on was how it would divide this south Texas county.

“We certainly look like hicks now!” Pam Tull wrote the local newspaper.

Added another letter writer, teacher Charles Marley: “You have a standing invitation to come to high school economics class and learn how supply and demand affects gasoline prices. You are embarrassing us in Texas.”

LA Times