Ann Freeman wrote a while back about all of the junk that citizens
cleaned out of the Greenway trench (just before it opened?). I found
that interesting because I thought that constructing the Greenway should
have included such clean-up.
M. Hohmann wrote about shifting the tax mix and thought that more taxes
on fossil fuels would be a good thing, with diesel being the most highly
taxed and gasoline being less so, because it is cleaner. I read something
a while back in the paper about the state's tax department looking ahead
to the more fuel-efficient cars and wanting to shift away from that tax
because they foresaw collections dropping dramatically in the next 10-20
years. In addition, there is much work being done on what is called bio-
diesel, made from soybeans, I think. Would that be a fossil fuel? It is
far cleaner burning than diesel. And would transit buses be taxed to
move them away from conventional diesel? I doubt that Metro Transit pays
any taxes...
Bruce Gaarder
Highland Park Saint Paul
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