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    <dc:creator>taestell</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["However, the research found 87% of Oklahomans and 84% of Texans accepted that climate change was occurring."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>taestell</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[More evidence that highways don't pay for themselves: Texas is looking to issue new debt, divert funding from the Department of Public Safety, use money from a rainy day fund, and approve more toll roads in order to fund new roads.]]></description>
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    <title>Texas DOT fesses up about endless subsidies for highways — will Wisconsin be next?</title>
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    <dc:creator>taestell</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["For example, in Houston, the 15 miles of SH 99 from I-10 to US 290 will cost $1 billion to build and maintain over its lifetime, while only generating $162 million in gas taxes. That gives a tax gap ratio of .16, which means that the real gas tax rate people would need to pay on this segment of road to completely pay for it would be $2.22 per gallon."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>taestell</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["When Texas joined the Union in 1845, voluntarily giving up its independence, it was granted the right by Congress to form 'new States of convenient size, not exceeding four in number and in addition to the said State of Texas.'"]]></description>
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