re: #245 Alexzander

The entire highway infrastructure is so misguided given the relative scarcity of oil. At some point in the next 80 years our access to oil is likely going to drop dramatically, leaving our streets as empty as North Korea’s, unless we come up with some very pioneering ways of 1) developing electric vehicles and 2) replacing all the components of a car that currently require oil to be produced with some other substance (the wheels, all the plastic etc etc).

Americans, human beings in general, don’t do anything until they’re in crisis mode. Even then it’s not consistent. Remember when gasoline prices skyrocketed in 2008? Well, sales of massive SUVs plummeted in favor of smaller fuel efficient vehicles. The when the prices returned to “normal” those sales reversed.