Tuesday night, President Obama gave his State of the Union address, which offered a chance for the president to present potential solutions for transportation and infrastructure funding.
However, our sister site Overdrive points out that the president only briefly mentioned transportation in his speech.
Instead bringing focus to nation’s deteriorating transportation system, Obama mentioned infrastructure funding and natural gas as part of his push for tax reform and job creation.
Obama said he wants to see natural gas become a primary fuel source and revenue from potential tax reform used in infrastructure and highway funding. He added that he plans to take steps to “slash bureaucracy and streamline permitting” for major transportation projects.
“We can take the money we save from this transition to tax reform to create jobs rebuilding our roads, upgrading our ports, unclogging our commutes — because in today’s global economy, first-class jobs gravitate to first-class infrastructure,” Obama said. “We’ll need Congress to protect more than 3 million jobs by finishing transportation and waterways bills this summer. That can happen.”
He also noted that natural gas could help the U.S. become more energy independent.
