In some states, revenues from the gasoline tax are used to build and maintain roads.

在一些州，汽油税的收入被用来修建和维护道路。

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It is cheaper to develop air transport to remote, geologically unstable areas, than to build and maintain roads.

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Additionally, a number of states were chatting up the idea as expenses to maintain roads increased and federal funds declined.

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Everyone, left and right, understands that the government has a responsibility to maintain the roads it operates.

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