Comment: Mandy, I highly doubt that the asphalt roads in northern Michigan, for example, are made from any significantly different form of asphalt than that used in roads here in Alaska.  Are you just speculating about that, or do you know for a fact that Alaskan asphalt roads are constructed using significantly different material than elsewhere?

But even if you are correct, the point still stands: studded tires do immense, and far-reaching, damage to our roads, I believe out of all proportion to their supposed benefits.