North Carolina is Nuber Juan!

[tsywake]

Sadly, it's due to having the highest tax per gallon of gasoline in the Southern United States. This data is put out by ExxonMobil, which is apparently trying very hard to make us hate big oil even less.

The standard article:
http://www.exxonmobilperspectives.com/2014/02/07/this-gasoline-tax-map-explains-a-lot/

Oh look, they've got an interactive link as well:
http://www.api.org/oil-and-natural-gas-overview/industry-economics/fuel-taxes/gasoline-tax

They've even got a pdf with info from each state:
http://www.api.org/state-taxes/northcarolina.pdf

 

[Wakeforest22890]

Conservatives are going to eat this shit up and decry the unfair taxes they're shoving at big oil.

 

[Biff Tannen]

The NC General Assembly would love to cut that tax so we can get back to driving on dirt roads.

 

[2&2 Slider To Leyritz]

Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads.

 

[tsywake]

We're just using all that excess money to be the first state to exclusively have solar roads.

 

[bullets]

gas taxes in the US are entirely too low

 

[TownieDeac]

gas taxes in the US are entirely too low

+100000

 

[Ball State Deac]

We have great roads in NC. They suck in SC, that's for sure.

 

[tsywake]

I admit, we do have great roads compared to many other states. We've made a lot of progress in the 25 year existence of Governor Martin's pavement for all plan, but that's a ton of asphalt to keep up on a yearly basis.

http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/05/27/2091989/north-carolina-seeks-to-pave-its.html

One thing I wish we'd see more of, is asphalt recycling detailed in the links below. The NCDOT policy may differ by the amount of traffic on the road, but during a recent repave in front of my house, the old asphalt was removed and taken off and replaced by new asphalt.

http://angelobenedetti.com/re-heat.php

http://www.betterroads.com/asphalt-recycling-section-2/

 

[Ball State Deac]

I admit, we do have great roads compared to many other states. We've made a lot of progress in the 25 year existence of Governor Martin's pavement for all plan, but that's a ton of asphalt to keep up on a yearly basis.

http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/05/27/2091989/north-carolina-seeks-to-pave-its.html

One thing I wish we'd see more of, is asphalt recycling detailed in the links below. The NCDOT policy may differ by the amount of traffic on the road, but during a recent repave in front of my house, the old asphalt was removed and taken off and replaced by new asphalt.

http://angelobenedetti.com/re-heat.php

http://www.betterroads.com/asphalt-recycling-section-2/

Sounds like a good idea to me.

 

[Deacon923]

I don't know the percentage but quite a bit of asphalt is recycled in NC. You wouldn't necessarily know it from just watching a road project, because they scrape it up and haul it off in trucks to remote areas to be melted down, then it comes back looking like new asphalt to the casual observer. Asphalt plants smell horrible and have lots of truck traffic so they're always far away from populated areas. I represented a company in the biz setting up shop in NC for some big road projects several years ago.