Blame oil prices for those potholes

WASHINGTON

Both price and availability problems are forcing local governments across the USA to scale back or cancel road projects this summer, the main paving season in much of the country.

For drivers, that means some roads likely will be worse than they otherwise would be later this year and beyond.

“Some roads are going to continue to get worse and worse, and eventually some will be converted to gravel whether we like it or not,” says Dirk Rogers, highway superintendent in Brown County, S.D.

USA Today