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- 1 2 Historical Milestones, 1932 Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., then president of General Motors, and other industry leaders founded the National Highway Users Conference (NHUC) to work for good, all-weather roads in every state to “get the farmers out of the mud” and to protect highway funding sources from depression-born demands for new tax revenues.
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{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ↑ Historical Milestones The Highway Users and its predecessors have been instrumental in the passage of virtually all major highway and traffic safety legislation over the past 75 year
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Greg Cohen’s Summary Licensed Professional Engineer Registered lobbyist - federal govt. & Congress Greg Cohen’s Specialties: Lobbying, media relations, grassroots organization, association management. Professional Staff House T&I Committee (Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry) 2000 — 2002
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- ↑ Historical Milestones, The Highway Users Federation was formed by the merger of the Automotive Safety Foundation (ASF), National Highway Users Conference (NHUC), and the Auto Industries Highway Safety Committee
- ↑ Historical Milestones,Under the leadership of then President and CEO William D. Fay, The Highway Users was reorganized and dedicated to more successful and aggressive issue advocacy on behalf of the highway community.
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American Highway Users Alliance global climate coalition.
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From a June 24, 2009 Legislative Alert issued by the American Highway Users Alliance (emphasis added): “The Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill will dramatically raise the price of highway fuel through a hidden tax on the carbon present in the fuel. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that this bill will raise the price of gasoline by 77 cents over the next decade. And unlike a traditional fuel tax increase, none of the revenue raised will be spent on highways.”
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