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Article: your views.(Local)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- November 1, 2009
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Anti-tax hike, anti-roads
Let's come to our senses and stop procrastinating about a fuel tax at the pump. Gasoline and diesel fuel are cheap in this country. In Canada and Norway, net petroleum exporting countries, gasoline and diesel fuel are more than $4 and $5 per gallon respectively. In the U.K. and the rest of Europe they are $6 and $7 per gallon.
To keep our traffic rolling and to facilitate economic development and growth, our transportation system needs to be modernized and rendered user-friendly.
Vehicles are the only users of roads, bridges and tunnels; therefore, a user fee and tolls are the most logical, sane and fair means of ...