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[traveler]

I just found this interesting. It is from anchorage Daily News

There are plentiful, painful reminders all over this Being Sea coastal community. At the grocery store, it's $39.25 for a 12-roll package of paper towels. Toilet paper costs $37.85 for a 36-roll package.

Want a 2-liter bottle of Diet Pepsi? It's on sale this week for $4.49. At a restaurant, breakfast for one will run about $16.

Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2012/03/29/2397173/nome-residents-roll-with-higher.html#storylink=cpy

And the price for a gallon of gas is well above the national average, at $5.96 a gallon.

If there's any good news for the 3,500 residents of Nome, it's that gas is cheap compared to what it could have been.

One of the two main fuel suppliers for Nome didn't have the last barge arrive before the Bering Sea froze for the winter. Bonanza Fuel considered flying in fuel from Anchorage, but the cost would have made gas prices jump to $9 or $10 a gallon.

Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2012/03/29/2397173/nome-residents-roll-with-higher.html#storylink=cpy