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This morning I was checking my Twitter feed and came across this article. It’s worth a read through, I won’t repeat everything here. Basically NJ Transit is going to raise prices for its transportation by 10%, yet New Jersey hasn’t raised it’s gas tax since 1988. Each commuter who rides the train or bus saves about 4,800 pounds of global warming pollution to our air each year. But that’s not apparently important to Gov. Christie, who would rather keep that gas tax low and get more cars on the road. Aside from the environmental standpoint, Transit creates 41,000 jobs for every $1 billion invested in the system. But, again, it’s more logical to spend our money on imported oil from dictators in the middle east. Nice logic.