Cut gas taxes, cut Texas jobs

A 90-day suspension of the federal gasoline tax could cost Texas half a billion dollars, and, as a result, 20,000 jobs over the next four years.

There are no easy answers on Peak Oil. Period.

Grow up, Americans, drop the blinders, and get rid of the idea of American exceptionalism.

Besides, the D.C. talk is of a much-needed raise, probably 10 cents a gallon.

Unless you want some Texas bridge to join the Minneapolis-St. Paul one near I-35 to join it in falling into some river, you should willingly pony up. If you live here in the Dallas side of the Metroplex, you may recall TxDOT found a hole in the pavement in a lane the Mixmaster section of I-30 earlier this summer.