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The cash is in the bag for DM&E. It is other future projects that are potentially jeopardized by the proposed cut back. Which makes this as good a time as any to reiterate my belief that such projects should be funded via a Multimodal Trust Fund (expanded from the Highway Trust Fund) paid for with fuel taxes (or an equivalent tax per energy unit) collected from all modes. That way all modes have access to user fees to replace non-general tax funds. Of course, it would also take a recognition from this and future Administrations that there is a big difference between the federal budget and user fee funds. Thus cutbacks in federal spending should not affect user fee funds. And it is also counterintuitive to be promoting domestic energy development on one hand, and proposing cutbacks in funding for aiding the development of domestic energy sources, which is exactly part and parcel of the DM&E saga. Memo to Mr. Minetta: We'll need much more than just the DM&E PRB expansion to meet future domestic energy development and production quotas this Administration has set.
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