Tipping point: U5 Secretary of Transportation, Mary Peters, takes a bold stance against the fuel tax. Could this be a critical turning point?

摘要

For most of the past century, fuel taxes - regardless of how they have been spent - seemed to provide the right amount of revenue and were dead easy to collect. Today, that picture is changing. The amount of tax collected is declining in relation to the funding demands of building and maintaining roads. You likely know the long-standing reasons: it is politically unpopular to raise fuel taxes; more efficient engines take heavier vehicles longer distances while consuming less fuel; and capital and operating costs of roads are steadily increasing.