“1st order of business remove agenda from Change.org Let’s all forget my promises!”

What does Change.org have to do with Obama’s administration? Maybe you meant Change.gov, the first real presidential blog in history. If that’s what you’re talking about well… http://change.gov/agenda/

why does change seem so similar to just another politician, hehehe.
I sure feel warm and fuzzy about my vote now.

Of course Dan rubbished such a whitewash. The fact is however, that Bush is leaving skeletons in the White House closet that a transparent administration may be forced to reveal.

So the opposite may be true, that history judges Bush as EVEN WORSE than people think of him today.

For a clue, watch out for those Presidential Pardons!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8894520/

http://genomicsgtl.energy.gov/biofuels/transportation.shtml#consumption

Of course, the figures do not include state highway money; the annual budget for my home state of Texas is $7 billion. That is for less than 10% of the US population so I think we can easily estimate $70 Billion per year for all states. There’s another 50 cents per gallon.

http://www.acppubs.com/article/CA6402088.html

And then there’s local city and county roads usually paid for with bonds (loans). I don’t have figures for that and can’t even guess.

My best estimate comes from the European gas prices, which are currently in the $7 per gallon range due to all the tax. Of course, that tax money is not punitive but rather used for roads and infrastructure, so it provides real-world examples of a self-sustaining transportation fuel price.

http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/01/news/international/usgas_price/

I’d like to see a moratorium on new road construction, which should lead us to better alternatives. Trying to solve traffic congestion by building more roads is like trying to solve obesity by buying bigger clothes.

Where did you get your information about $7/gallon is true cost of building/maintaining roads. Love to find out if the number is supported. We have “discussions” at work.

In no particular order:
- Network neutrality
- Broadband for all
- Municipal Wi-Fi
- Abolish software patents.
- Require use of open standards for all public documents.
- Abolish compulsory schooling, to let literacy levels rise back to their heights of the 1880’s (cf John Taylor Gatto).