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A Government Accountability Office report published this week determined that as a result of the unfounded presumption that truckers are cheating the system, between $1 billion and $2 billion has been improperly held back from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund and diverted to the Highway Trust Fund. The GAO report determined that any uses of aviation fuel in ground vehicles over the past decade have been “rare,” and that both “economic and technological disincentives” further restrict the likelihood of such diversions taking place today. It’s hard to believe that any record in aviation could hold for 40 years, but 1976 was