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  • When Public Transit's Cash Cow Runs Dry

        Americans are driving fewer miles this year than last year - and that means the Highway Trust Fund, fueled by the gasoline tax, took in billions of fewer dollars in Fiscal Year 2008. We drove 90 billion miles less in a period of 11 months in FY08 compared to the year before, reported the U.S. Department of Transportation last week. ...
    Posted to Write On METRO (Weblog) by Mary Sit on November 24, 2008