I like how you do an analysis from my post and your driving through town

Who knows. As for the gas tax, most people don't understand the problem we have in SC.

See, for oh, about 20 YEARS, NC and GA had higher gas taxes, and they used that money on roads, and their roads are FAR better than SC has. So, in order to "fix" the problem, we raised our gas tax, overriding Gubnah Mack Master's veto. Now this was sold as the solution. Raise the tax to equal GA and NC, and our roads will improve to their level. Doesn't work that way. All raising gas taxes does, effectively, is stops our decline relative to our neighboring states. It does NOTHING to catch us up to their level. For us to catch up to their level, we would have to have a gas tax ABOVE their current gas tax, relative to the level we were once UNDER it, and then, in 20 years, our roads would match theirs.

Now to Gubnah Mack Master's credit, he has blown the majority of our covid relief on roads, which gives us a big boost towards catching up. But aside from that, the tax we have on gas alone will never get us there.

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I just replaced my third windshield on my car. The THIRD.

Feb 8, 2024, 9:30 AM

On the same car. Each time, it was from rocks flying up from a crumbling interstate. I-26 north of the construction mess up to Newberry is horrible for rocks flying up. The interstate is cracking, has pot holes, and trucks kick up debris all the time in that area. I JUST GOT A DING AGAIN yesterday, same area of interstate where I got the last crack.

Now they have repaved the worst parts, and the new pavement is rougher than the old pavement, but at least rocks aren't flying up anymore. It's a sad contractor who did that work, whoever it was. And before they repaved a couple of miles of it, I would usually see 2, 3, sometimes 4 or 5 cars over in the emergency lane with flat tires after hitting potholes.

I-95 was repaved in concrete, maybe 10-15 years ago. It's horrible now. After every slab, there's a dip that is cracking and creating huge holes.

Part of our problem is also using sub-par contractors who cut corners.

Oh, and Carolina Crossroads is still dead in the water until they can figure out the most important part, again. Seems when planning the 1.whatever billion dollar project they forgot to take into account moving utilities and infrastructure. So they've started building bridges and roads to connect into a project that's dead in the water. Nice.

Oh, and I-26 was going to be finished ahead of schedule, giving the contractor a nice bonus too. Gubnah Mack Master and the head of SCDOT even used the project as a stage for a photo-op and press conference. They gushed about how well the project was coming along, and under budget and ahead of schedule. Like 2-3 days later SCDOT sends an inspector out who rips the contractors, then adds all kinds of stuff they were not planning to do, to slow the project down. Of course this was after the press conference. No doubt SCDOT wants to slow things down as much as possible to avoid paying the extra $$$ for early completion.

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My mortgage balance is exactly $1,000 off from

Damson. SC really did raise their gas taxes I guess?

SC average, $2.91 and TN is $2.84

It's not cheap to send their staff to Gaza to learn road maintenance techniques.***

Not sure where those averages come from

I made them up

Meaning I have no idea where aaa gets them from

I dont GAS about state averages.

I don't buy gas in TN

oh man, I just got your pun slash acronym, nice***

thank you sir***

go down to Willco

I filled up for $2.63 yesterday. Same place this AM was $2.95

Two roads near me that I travelled frequently that were terrible

I just replaced my third windshield on my car. The THIRD.

I'm not reading all of that

2 of my three were from the road. One, unknown.

Re: SC average, $2.91 and TN is $2.84

I feel validated. Screw the lying AAA and their cabal of conspirators.***

yeah, these are real-time prices, not averages from a few reported stations

oh, and that was a non-E purchase which happent to be same as prem price***

Yeah the premium price is what gave me pause.

Re: My mortgage balance is exactly $1,000 off from

Nice.

Also, holy humblebrag on that mortgage balance!

That's just the mortgage on his shed.***

It's funny, I paid cash money for the shed

Joke's on them. That's the one thing they can't repo.***

I'm a man, I'm 40, I have a degree from Clemson

Tone it down there, crulez.***

I thought I could freely discuss the mortgage balance

I think the bigger flex is posting an underwater mortgage because

Re: I think the bigger flex is posting an underwater mortgage because

Not really a function of age.

Better than income though, right?

When you live in an $80,000 house...***

I couldnt tell you within probably 100k

Congrats on catching up to GA gas prices. Maybe even passing them

You should see how we compare to TN!***

You're the old slac tiger of gas prices.

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