Ed Rendell: “I would envision 5, 10 years down the road that we wouldn't have a gas tax, we would have some other form of user fee.”

We are going to lose a whole boatload of business to Canada because of that.

We strongly support an infrastructure bank. It is the best vehicle, we think, for getting capital, private capital, into play for projects of regional and national significance.

But I go to too many hearings on the question of infrastructure and transportation, and nothing significant gets done. Nothing significant gets done.

The cost of inaction --and the gentleman from the trucking industry talked about repairs and accidents to the trucks that come from bad roads and inadequate bridges.