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Posts Tagged ‘infrastructure’

• Crumbling Highways and Excuses for Socialism

  Posted October 27th, 2008 at 12:58pm in Enterprise and Free Markets with 2 comments

  CATO’s Chris Edwards writes: There is much talk of a second economic “stimulus” bill that would send tens of billions of added federal tax dollars to state governments for infrastructure. Senator Obama recently promised “to put two million more Americans to work, rebuilding our crumbling roads and schools and bridges.” Is America’s infrastructure really crumbling? Many highways [...] More

• Hurricanes: Another Good Reason for Expanded Drilling

  Posted September 2nd, 2008 at 3:46pm in Energy and Environment with 0 comments

  Twenty-five percent of America’s oil production and a significant amount of onshore refining capacity and pipeline infrastructure is located in the hurricane-prone central and western Gulf of Mexico — and much of it was in the path of Hurricane Gustav. Fortunately, unlike Katrina and Rita in 2005 and other past hurricanes, Gustav has not done significant [...] More

• A Private Solution to D.C. Transit?

  Posted January 28th, 2008 at 10:59am in Enterprise and Free Markets with 0 comments

  Last week, the federal government indicated it was reconsidering a $900 million grant to fund a massive expansion of the Washington Metro. Today, the Washington Post reports that a funding solution may be in sight: private investors may help the rail extension project meet its funding needs. As reported previously on The Foundry, the publicly-run Metro [...] More