Cheaper gas vs. Roadwork
Interesting article in today's Post-Gazette talking about a measure being proposed by a lawmaker from Western Pennsylvania. If you don't want to click the link, this lawmaker is proposing suspending Pennsylvania's 31.2 cent gas tax until 10/31/06. The state says that if you do that, then we'll have to stop work on roads and bridges.
I'd really like to pay less for gas and I am kinda ambivalent as to whether road work continues or not. So I think I would vote for the tax suspension. Of course if I worked as a flagger, I might have different feelings. But I don't.
So what's it going to be: cheaper gas or road work stoppage?
posted @ 8:59 AM
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Wait until you start blowing tires, sliding off the road, spend an hour a day in traffic and ruining your cars alignment. You'll rue the day that you voted against these improvements.
Not to mention that a bunch of bridges are unsafe right now. What if one collapses while your on it?
Take it from someone who lived in a country that didn't have any road work. Bad idea. Obviously out roadways won't turn to rubble overnight, but imagine just one large pothole in the middle of Rt 81. Carnage galore. I don't think that there is a "solution" to high gas prices. Americans act like we are the only ones who use oil. China and India together now use more than we do, and will pay whatever OPEC asks because the don't remember the "good old days" of low prices. The real solution to the problem is to not use gas.
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