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To: Ben Mugged
Car pooling and new roads are not the solution......the only one that will work. Get drivers out of their cars.

What the heck has happened to the President? You and he are both goofy. Refresh your memory, all the Federal and state tax paid on fuel is our "fee" for driving upon the public way. The fee is simmply being misspent.

70 posted on 02/12/2007 1:57:35 PM PST by Lion Den Dan
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To: Lion Den Dan
OK I'll try one last time. Build all the roads you want. Spend the entire US economy building roads. The number of cars will expand to fill all available highways until the entire North American Continent is a vast interlaced parking lot and every square mile not dedicated to highways is growing corn for fuel. Not one car on the highway will exceed 50 MPH because there is no room.

look at every urban area in the US that has built roads over the last 20 years. See any improvement in traffic flow? Is it taking you less time to go from Atlanta to Orlando this year versus in 2000? Doesn't matter how much is spent on highway development or where the money comes from, the rate of increase in the number of cars exceeds the rate at which we can expand the highways.

There, I got it out of my system......

88 posted on 02/12/2007 2:09:59 PM PST by Ben Mugged (Always cheat; always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose.)
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To: Lion Den Dan
What does my assertion that no matter how much you expand the roads you will not improve traffic flow got to do with taxes and fees?
97 posted on 02/12/2007 2:14:07 PM PST by Ben Mugged (Always cheat; always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose.)
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To: Lion Den Dan

MANY states are dipping into federal tax dollars to fund their socialist ways.


172 posted on 02/12/2007 3:31:19 PM PST by listenhillary (You can lead a man to reason, but you can't make him think)
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