ideas for how to adequately fund road and bridge maintenance in oregon and the consensus was, why not do it like a utility? if you pay for your electricity as you use it why not pay for the number of miles you drive on the roads because that contributes eventually to the roads crumbling, so we need to keep them fixed up. explain how this works. this is, clearly, another way of getting more money. it s a way of keeping up really, we re not trying to increase the revenue more than we need in order to keep the roads and bridges in safe and efficient operation, so we re trying to really replace the gas tax, and let me explain that really this is a test drive. lowering the gas tax or eliminating the gas tax to put these systems in or this plus that? it will be either/or. so orago, the name of this program we re starting on july 1st you will either pay at the pump but then when you have this little device in your car,
obama to run against is progress i was concerned, the most concerning candidate would be mike huckabee who is a populist, who is folksy. huckabee will not be able to get the nomination because wall street and the big correlations don t like his economic populism. who do you think would be the toughest competitor for president obama? you know, i ll be honest. i don t see that tough competitor yet. i think i m putting aside the personalities. here s the candidate i want is someone who is going to go out there and talk about actually what you were just talking about earlier which is the fact that this country is not investing any real money in infrastructure. you had this big stimulus bill that was passed by congress. 3% of that went to transportation infrastructure, 3%. we ve got roads crumbling, you know. i m the type of conservative that thinks, you know, it s not bad to spend government money if you re going to build things that are going to be around for 30 years from now, but