transportation
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Budgets/TaxesClimate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyFeatured
Make Those Nasty Drivers Pay!
by Greg Walcher May 20, 2019Louisiana Senator Russell Long famously explained how most people feel about taxes: “Don’t tax you; don’t tax me; tax that fellow behind the tree.”
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Environment/Energy
Electric Buses Don’t Save Money or the Environment
by H. Sterling Burnett March 6, 2019From Chicago to San Francisco, several cities across the nation have started to replace some or all their diesel bus fleets with rechargeable battery-powered buses.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
A Young Person’s Guide to Energy Conservation
by James H. Rust August 9, 2016Energy has long lost media attention; so we no longer think about ways we use energy and its effect on national policy or our pocketbooks. However, problems of energy supply we deemed a crisis in the 1970’s are still with us. U. S. warships still protect Persian Gulf supply of Middle East oil which accounts for one-quarter world’s oil production.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
Free-Market Principles Should Guide Road-Funding Solutions
by Jesse Hathaway July 20, 2016As Americans hit the road during summer driving season, one thing that’s probably not on their minds is how the maintenance of those roads gets funded.