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Sunday, May 4, 2008
What do we need to do to protect ourselves from high gas prices?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
High fuel prices have sent shock wave through our economy.
Despite warnings for decades that we were too dependent on foreign oil and on our cars to get around, Georgia leaders have done little to prepare us for this current situation.
And it’s not just state leaders. The federal government has not encouraged the development of rail transit and intercity passenger rail as a way to give people choices on how the move around.
In the past couple of weeks, it’s been politically popular to support a suspension in the federal gas tax. And after Hurricane Katrina, Georgia did the same temporarily.
But suspending the gas tax does nothing to solve the deep underlying problem facing our state and our country. It is time we invest in our transportation infrastructure so that we can reduce our dependence on foreign oil, so we can slow down the growth of congestion and so we can have energy-efficient choices on how we get around.
A recent survey among residents in our 11-county region shows that we are ready to invest in our future.
To read more, please see “Gas tax holiday not a way to protect our future.”
