Posted by
Jason on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 11:14:43 AM
A two-year study by the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission released their report yesterday calling for gas taxes to be raise by forty cents per gallon over the next five years. They cited the Minneapolis bridge collapse from last August a prime example of the need to drastically increase the price at the pump.
However, it was also released yesterday that the Minneapolis bridge collapsed due to a design flaw, not a lack of maintenance.
"Investigators said that the Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis, which collapsed into the Mississippi River on Aug. 1, killing 13, came down because of a flaw in its design.
"The designers had specified a metal plate that was too thin to serve as a junction of several girders, investigators say."
I doubt the commission will change its recommendations though. These are government bureaucrats we're talking about here. Keep in mind that the more money they take from us in taxes, the more power they have.
Besides, do you really think that that forty cents will actually go toward infrastructure? They can't even responsibly spend the money we've already sent.
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