CLIMATE - Obama has a good transportation plan. Now we just need to raise the gas tax to pay for it.

If you can’t pass good legislation, at least promote good ideas.Manfred Steinbach/ThinkstockThe problems all started with Newt Gingrich. For decades, federal transportation funding had been a bastion of bipartisanship: The gasoline tax served as a user fee for our roads, 20 percent of the revenue went to mass transit and the rest to highways, and everyone kept the system running so their districts could get what they needed. Then, in 1994, Gingri ...

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