VPOD #47. Dr. Quentin Kidd, CNU. Jan. 19.
By JR Hoeft | Monday, January 19th, 2009 | PodcastsIn this episode of Virginia Politics On-Demand, Christopher Newport University professor Dr. Quentin Kidd talks about the state of Virginia politics, voting behavior, the politics of legacy, and offers some sage advice for Republicans in the Virginia General Assembly.
Then, Shaun Kenney and I talk about this weekend’s Virginia Conservative Conference, our observations on the beginning of this session of the GA, the inauguration of President Barack Obama, and the National Right to Life march upcoming this Thursday.
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[...] Newport University professor Dr. Quentin Kidd talked to J.R. Hoeft about Virginia politics over at Bearing Drift. If that sixteen minutes passed for “analysis,” then the Democrats could be in [...]
I am going to vent here a little bit.
During the podcast the issue of our transportation problems came up at least briefly.
Republicans (or at least one Republican, my Richmond Senator Wagner) are in favor of paying for our transportation needs through tolls.
Tollways are inefficient and do nothing to help us with our societal needs. They motivate traffic to avoid the tolls and take alternate routes to avoid the tolls even if this alternate route involves the expenditure of additional fossil fuels to get to their destination.
With an increase of the fuel tax instead of relying on tollways we kill about three birds with one stone. We pay for continuing maintenance and improvement needs. We motivate conservation of fuel decreasing our dependence on foreign crude oil. We motivate decreased emissions of greenhouse gasses. Everybody wins.
One day we will need to come up with alternative measures to pay for construction and maintenance of our transportation infrastructure. However for the time being motivating, through increased taxes on fossil fuels, the adoption of alternative energy as a means of transportation offers so many benefits to our nation that I must continue to support increased taxes on crude oil.
Are you against motivating the citizens of our society to send less money to OPEC?
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