Comments - Reuters - Biden pauses federal drilling program in climate push - Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power - Maine2024-03-28T16:07:14Zhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=4401701%3ABlogPost%3A202955&xn_auth=noWe know that USDOT is looking…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2021-01-23:4401701:Comment:2027892021-01-23T16:42:27.092ZKenneth Capronhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/KennethCapron
<p>We know that USDOT is looking to spend big dollars on making our roads great again. There is a shortage of bridges to nowhere.</p>
<p>We know that MDOT is broke and broken and needs new leadership. But if BVN can delay long enough, the Fed will bail out the $325 million annual shortfall in the State DOT budget, and he will still be wasting our time in Augusta.<br></br><br></br>So any indication of increases to gas taxes, and excise taxes, was unexpected would be wrong. The Blue Ribbon Commission's…</p>
<p>We know that USDOT is looking to spend big dollars on making our roads great again. There is a shortage of bridges to nowhere.</p>
<p>We know that MDOT is broke and broken and needs new leadership. But if BVN can delay long enough, the Fed will bail out the $325 million annual shortfall in the State DOT budget, and he will still be wasting our time in Augusta.<br/><br/>So any indication of increases to gas taxes, and excise taxes, was unexpected would be wrong. The Blue Ribbon Commission's failure to think of solutions last ear, left only gas taxes, EV usage taxes and excise taxes as the way to fund. Yes it is rumored that MDOT would set up a fake phone line for reporting potholes, but they couldn't make it work on their rotary phones.</p>
<p> I'm being terribly sarcastic because "our best and our brightest" couldn't think of an better solutions that more taxes - $324 million more each ear for the next ten.<br/><br/>I'm putting together notes and articles to support the argument that we have literally reach "the end of the road" as we know it. Even with tax increases, no state can afford to continue with an infrastructure that needs constant repair and replacement every decade or less. We need an infrastructure that lasts a hundred years or more between major overhauls.<br/><br/>I am working on such a system with public and private investors right now, but as long as we believe that roads as we know them are the way forward, we are screwed. Lets face it, roads were designed for horse and carts. Roads were then made to work for cars. Now what? How about tax free mode of transportation? You got it.</p>
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