Rising Energy Costs Harm Rural Communities

From Amy Glasmeier on the Daily Yonder:

Since the 1950s, cheap energy enabled mobility through the Interstate Highway System, and the ensuing decentralization of people and economic activity benefitted rural areas. While there are no definitive studies that calculate just how much American rural development of the last 50 years owes to the low cost of transportation, nonetheless we can and should consider how today’s drastically changed circumstances will affect the potential for future economic growth of rural America.

We also need to consider how these circumstances will affect rural schools. I'm just guessing, but I don't think it's going to be pretty.