Posted on 03/06/2010 8:47:30 AM PST by Tribune7
As we ponder how to fight global warming (ho ho ho), become less dependent on foreign oil and get our economy back in gear consider that highway congestion costs us about $76 billion annually in wasted time and fuel, and the remember that our interstates are a bit behind in maintenance, according to Robert W. Poole, Jr., an M.I.T-trained engineer who directs transportation studies at Reason Foundation.
Washington taxes us 18.3 cents per gallon and there are those who would lead you to conclude that that is not enough since the maintenance shortfall is between $60 and $90 billion per year and the federal Highway Trust Fund tasked to pay for the work is in the red, $8 billion so in 2008.
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It always PO’s me when I see my transportation/gas taxes going to pay for walking paths, bicycle paths, under street animal crossings, art-in-public-plkaces and other assorted BS. Call me cranky. I call my self disgusted with this diversion from road repair and construction.
My wife and I are cyclists. We went riding today. All day we were dodging around pot holes and bad spots in the road. We have had very cold weather and tons of rain and some snow this winter and the roads here are in terrible shape. They came along a couple of weeks ago and put filler in the pot holes, but now even that is coming out. Tons of tax money and bunch of lousy roads.
You know what would solve that problem?
Global warming, that's what.
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