[billybobsky]

Indeed...

What we really need is better public transit. Why build more roads when we are running out of good sources of fuel and direct electrical distribution to trains and such is more efficient than distribution to any battery, by thermodynamics? Seriously. Spend the billions on independent nation wide high speed lines, keep rails under government control, but encourage usage agreements by private corporations -- mixed government/private usage is always better, and where demand does not ensure profit but services are still needed, the government can step in or contract out... Give grants to large urban areas to develop a cohesive public transit environment. suburbs will have to be serviced like urban areas, exurbs can be serviced with regional rails, and close high speed line points... build up point to point transportation with local agencies, clean, cheap, fast buses to well placed stops. encourage people to walk/bike.

do everything in our power to make the car an excessive luxury.

of course, this depends upon the creation of better electrical distribution set ups, a larger more modern grid which has the ability to adjust without fail on the fly...