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With its supply abundance, significant price advantage and gasoline-like energy content to power readily available engine technology, how could compressed natural gas not become a dominant alternative to diesel fuel and gasoline?

Imagine if you were living today on the same $1-per-week allowance your parents gave you as a child. It would be tough to pay the mortgage, buy food and find transportation, much less visit the doctor and hairdresser and otherwise keep yourself presentable. That’s the situation facing the Highway Trust Fund (HTF), created by the federal government back in 1956 to pay for highway construction and maintenance. Feeding the fund is an 18.3-cents-per-gallon federal tax on gasoline and 24.4-cents-per-gallon tax on diesel—the same level set back in 1993.

Shareholders vote out Holman, two others to make room for new slate on board of directors