Reply #21: road repair is part of the vicious oil cycle... [View All]

[Javaman]

as we fight wars for oil the price goes up, as the price goes up, the price of asphalt goes up, if the price of asphalt goes up. Town, city and state taxes to repave and repair the roads go up, so they raise the tax (eventually) on the price of gas to pay for those repairs...

You want to know what the future of driving is going to be? google the price of asphalt.

It's not what you drive it's what you drive on that makes all the difference. Cars get the gas mileage they do (good or bad) mostly because we have relatively good roads. Once the roads start to decline in earnest, gas mpg goes down, costs go up and we can fill in the rest.

And so it goes.