Crumbling highways are slowing down the fossil fuel boom in U.S. states like Texas and North Dakota, according to a Bloomberg report summarized in The Truth About Cars. The trucks that haul heavy equipment for oil and gas development are wreaking havoc in a country that faces a multi-trillion-dollar highway infrastructure deficit. “Aside from hindering oil production, the crumbling roads also bring more accidents—from tankers becoming stuck, to increases in fatalities—and add difficulties for other vehicles attempting to navigate what had once been a less-travelled path,” Miquelon writes.
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