Patching Potholes

Patching Potholes: "Washington can collect as much as $25 billion in federal gasoline taxes a year. Ideally — and ethically — ever penny of those taxes should be spent on federal roads, repairing the old ones and building new ones where needed.

But it isn't. Only about 60% is used for federal highways and bridges. The rest is spent on whatever Washington decides it wants to use it for. Mary Peters, transportation secretary under President George W. Bush, once noted on PBS that it's spent on 'special programs.'"