But, have you ever sat for hours in the traffic at rush hour in, well, any of our country’s big cities? Our transportation system is woefully inadequate for the volume if handles. Boston, Los Angeles, Detroit, Atlanta, San Antonio, all of these cities have transportation systems built to handle significantly lower levels of traffic. The ensuing traffic causes a waste of time, money, energy, and pollution.

Compare this to what’s happening in other countries. In Japan, they have high-speed trains that go 150 mph — and you don’t lose wireless connectivity anywhere in the country. Even deep underground in the subway and in the country between cities.

In India, they’re building a 1400-km superhighway system connecting all of their largest cities. In some places, it is cheaper and faster in India to take high-speed train than to fly.

America has to compete with this. As I understand it, Obama has also spoken of plans to further energy independence.

In this flattening world, we can’t afford not to develop our infrastructure, because the rest of the world is getting faster, cheaper, and easier.

Seriously, this was on the Dallas news this morning and what they are going to do really needs to be done, but the funny part is that part of the road is going to be a toll road. So we’re using our tax dollars to stimulate the economy by building a toll road.

I am totally with you over different energy sources.

It is also said that 44 states are broke.

200 Billion will help. But it really is just another bandaid. We need over 1 trillion dollars to fix the bridges and highways.