[XBob]

got an idea, why don't we just blockade the highways for all products that these highway haters use, and make them carry them themselves on the subway, especially in Houston. Think of them, coming from the northeast to carry their goods across Houston, instead of them traveling on 1-10, I-45, and SR-59. Then they could try to get them on the rail roads too.

And of course, we would have to cut off their supplies of oil and chemicals from Houston, as no roads, no workers to control the pipelines and the railroads for their stuff either.

[GOPcapitalist]

You're exactly right. This country would shut down without the highways. They are by no small measure an integral engine of economic prosperity and have been since they came to exist. The failure to recognize that is nothing more than an unwillingness to see the obvious.

Take our friend Hermann for example. He's posted countless tirades on the "lost property tax revenue" from constructing a highway on a narrow and geographically negligible strip of space that by its very existence as a highway increases the adjoining property value and accompanying revenues tenfold if not more. One might as well lament the lost revenue from a parking meter after it is removed to make way for a six story pay garage.

[Hermann the Cherusker]

Highway haters? Because I disagree with the politcally determined method of financing I'm a highway hater? What kind of loony debate is this?

And of course, we would have to cut off their supplies of oil and chemicals from Houston, as no roads, no workers to control the pipelines and the railroads for their stuff either.

Thanks, we've got our own refineries and chemical plants here in Philadelphia (seven refineries with a total capacity of 1.2 million barrels per day and lots of associated chemical plants). Not as big as you guys, but big enough for ourselves. We are a net exporter of these items to the rest of the country.