Pot Holes and Road Kill

When you live in the greater Charlotte, NC area you spend a lot of your time concerned about pot holes and road kill.  I will take some time now to show you some things that I have thought about.  Do you think about these same things also?

There is a complicated formula in my head when it comes to pot holes.  Should we lower taxes for all and just keep the pot holes on the road vs. spending tax money on pot hole repair?  Does the amount we pay to fix our shocks on the car come out to more than the tax money to fill these bad boys up?  What about people who do not have a car but their tax money goes to fixing pot holes?  Is this fair to them?  Do pot holes force people to slow down, thus making the roads safer? Do pot holes everywhere motivate people to buy vehicles with off-road capabilities?  Should I be investing money in companies that make these vehicles?... I could get rich.    Then there is road kill.  How bad is it?  Are the raccoons going to become extinct or is this just a Darwinian method of the smartest raccoons surviving and a more genetically superior breed of raccoons populating the planet.  Who gets paid to clean up road kill?  The vultures do it for free.  Is it safe to eat road kill?  We could save a whole lot of money if we just ate road kill.  Road kill had a better life than an animal at a slaughterhouse that was subjected to cruel conditions since infancy.  So is road kill a more ethical protein source?  There is a real danger to road kill too.  Some animals like deer can fly through your windshield and kill you if you run into them. These are things that may cross your mind also when you move to the Southeast.  But as the concrete and asphalt expand, and as time goes by, road kill becomes more scarce.  I have noticed a sharp reduction in dead possum compared to previous years.  Seeing the splattered corpse of an animal who has no perception of what a motor vehicle is really makes you appreciate the fragility of life itself.