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Show 1 ????????' !!!!'. ''!''" 1. According to the Federal Fed-eral Highway Administration, Administra-tion, most of our highways are in (a) excellent to good (b) good (c) fair to poor condition? 2. One truck loaded to 80,000 pounds does as much road damage as (a) nearly 10,000 (b) about 100 (c) fewer than ten automobiles? 3. One of the best ways to pay for repairing the road is with a new tax that trucks pay based on their (a) age (b) weight and mileage (c) fuel use? ANSWERS: 1. (c) About 70 percent of America's major roads and highways are rated poor or fair. 2. (a) According to the Government Govern-ment Accounting Office of the next Congress, one truck loaded to 80,000 pounds does pavement damage dam-age equal to 9,600 automobiles. automo-biles. 3. (b) Roads are damaged by heavy trucks traveling great mileages. A tax based on weight and mileage say transportation experts at the Association of American Railroads, whose members have a competitive stake in this issue, would have these trucks pay the most toward reparing that damage. |