A Science of the State

Catalysts and Corrosions: Transportation

1. What are the catalysts of transportation in support of the state?

a.) Transportation makes for a more united nation--it is easier get information and important people to and from the capital.

b.) The maintenance of roads and highways creates more jobs for citizens

c.) Transportation boosts the local economy, making it easier for people to travel for tourism and making it easier to ship goods throughout the state quickly and efficiently.

2. What are the corrosions of transportation that undermine the support of the state?

a.) Unrest of the people--the policy of Eminent Domain as roads, highways, and railroad tracks are built.

b.) Paying workers to keep roads and highways and maintaining them puts stress on the state budgets.

c.) Transportation, at least as it is now, causes interdependence on foreign sources of fuels, which, at the moment, is causing fuels to be inordinately expensive and hard on the state and the consumer. This dependence of foreign oil is also weakening the American dollar, which is not good for the state's station as a world power.