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Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels has proposed raising the tolls and entering a long-term lease with a private company to operate the Indiana Toll Road. He says the $2.8 billion or more he hopes a private company would pay for a 50-year or longer lease is the only way to pay for many needed road projects in the state, including upgrading U.S. 31 between South Bend and Indianapolis to Interstate standards.
Opponents of the plan say we shouldn’t take 50 years or more worth of lease payments and spend them in 10 years or less. They also question the wisdom of giving over operation of state assets like the Toll Road to private companies. Some northern Indiana critics have also questioned the distribution of the revenue from such a lease, arguing more of it should stay in northern Indiana projects.
Thank You Tina!
That guy was a jerk.
Assuming they mean gasoline rather than natural gas, do they mean:
The retailer who probably owns just that one station, maybe 2-3?
The jobber who brings the gasoline from the wholesaler/terminal operator to the retailer?
The wholesaler/terminal operator?
The pipeline or barge operator?
The refiner?
The crude oil E+P company?
The oil services companies that lease drilling equipment and/or perform drilling services for the E+P company?
Do they realize that while some companies are much larger than their competitors, when you take the industry as a whole it is less vertically integrated than most mature industries?
Do they even know what vertically integrated means?
So….. the ability to name off a few E+P companies, that is enough to support in your mind these conspiracy theories? Wow, that’s alarming.