The solution to economic woes in the next (say) 10 years would be to embark upon a massive project to rebuild the energy and transport infrastructure of the US not to need fossil fuels.

We keep being bit in the arse every time the price of oil and/or natural gas has a burp, and we can solve this AS WELL AS leading the way to minimizing greenhouse gas emissions.

We lead the way in environmental conservation, starting with Roosevelt the First, we built relatively fast transcontinental railroad when the Europeans and Russians could only dream of building out over such terrain, we built the Interstate system. What’s happened to us over the past 25-30 years.

Yeah, Google is doing some amazing things with I.T., but where’s the will to do more mundane things that require non-electrical engineering as well as electrical?