Tuesday, August 20th, 2013
Stephan: I have been following and writing about the road depaving trend for almost five years, and it is getting more and more prevalant, particularly in states controlled by Republicans. We are actually going backwards. Compare this with the preceding story about the photovoltaic road in Korea. And notice that this story of Texas, a state that seems to excel in charging into the past, is yet another consequence of surrendering the general wellbeing so that a few corporations, and the individuals who control them, can make billions of dollars from Fracking.
As he witnesses the roads around his South Texas farm crumble and deteriorate, Dane Elliot is aware that he is both a victim of the problem and part of it. The farmer and rancher in Live Oak County also owns a small trucking company that hauls oil field equipment.
‘My wife works in a local hospital and she has to take our son to daycare,’ Eliott said. ‘It worries me every day with the traffic and road conditions. It weighs on my mind, not only from a maintenance standpoint for my trucks but a safety standpoint for my family.
