(H/T – Purple Avenger)
The Wall Street Journal reports on the latest victim of the POR Economy – paved roads. With declining tax revenues and skyrocketing petroleum-based asphalt costs (left unmentioned except in the comments over at Ace of Spades HQ is the skyrocketing cost of government), more and more localities that are faced with rebuilding roads are simply completing the job of ruining the pavement and going to gravel roads.
I could look on the negative side (the dust that’s kicked up, the paint chips and cracked windshields from the flying gravel, the slower speeds and more numerous accidents forced by the uneven traction inherent in a gravel road, the more-frequent maintenance required, the increased likelyhood of a road closure after a good rainfall), or I could look at this as creating and saving a lot of road maintenance and auto repair jobs. Given I’m about to quote the Avenger’s close, guess which outlook applies:
Its all part of the Ogabe junta’s master plan to punish America and reduce the lifestyle gap between us and the 3rd world.
