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America is vastly undercharging its drivers for the roads they use even as the cost to build and maintain highways soars, a new report confirms — and it would be better for everyone, including motorists themselves, if Congress pursued new strategies beyond just the gas tax to get drivers to pay their fair share and stop the mega-project madness that’s made our transportation system so expensive in the first place.
Read more from Kea Wilson — and check out all of today’s news headlines — at the links below.
Centennial events downplay the violent history of one of America’s most “iconic” highways, and obscure how that violence persists to this day.
The U.S. is becoming a dying petrostate, while China leads the world in renewable energy.
“Affordable travel is not a fallback. It is what makes broad mobility possible.”
