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CADE FOSTER posted...

We dont invest in infrastructure only when it breaks

I read in a book once that there isn't enough material left for us to recreate the interstate highway system

'by the summer of 1962, about 12,500 miles of the system were open to traffic, and another 34 miles were opening, on average, every week. The economic impact of this effort was stunning. Each billion dollars spent on construction provided the equivalent of forty-eight thousand full-time jobs for a year and consumed an almost inconceivably vast pile of resources: sixteen million barrels of cement, more than half a million tons of steel, eighteen million pounds of explosives, 123 million gallons of petroleum products, and enough earth to bury New Jersey knee-deep. It also devoured seventy-six million tons of aggregate -- so much aggregate, some in the business have surmised, that the United States could not mine enough rock to rebuild the interstates today.'
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