"As Americans drive less, new ways are needed to fund the national road system, the highway agency said. Even though fewer drivers are using the highways, funding is still critical, party because of a backlog in highway projects.

Peters said she would unveil a new plan on Tuesday to "fundamentally reform our nation's transportation." She said much of the plan will focus on calculating a better cost-benefit analysis for maintaining the national highway system, as well as "weaning ourselves from the gas tax over time." "

WHOA!! Back the truck up here!! Why pour more money into an infrastructure that is going
obsolete when America needs a decent rail system?? A rail system would be less expensive, in
the long run, to maintain than our interstate system would ever be plus make America less
energy dependant on any other country.

So what if diesel became scarce? We got lots of coal and still know how to build steam engines.

Try that with cars/trucks.