We are locked into a size and shape due to the highway and road systems we keep maintaining.
But how would we get our stuff where it needs to go?
One possibility:
One corridor across the center of the country from shore to shore that houses great rigs that ferry goods across the country at high speed on mag-lev solar powered sleds. On the sleds are the trailers and personal conveyances that clog our interstates. Multiple lanes terminate at various points across the country. At those points are hubs that spider out to stations in the various cities in that region.
The two center lanes terminate at a hub at each ocean.
Solar panels line all surfaces of the structure including the massive sleds...

We are locked into a size and shape due to the highway and road systems we keep maintaining.
But how would we get our stuff where it needs to go?
One possibility:
One corridor across the center of the country from shore to shore that houses great rigs that ferry goods across the country at high speed on mag-lev solar powered sleds. On the sleds are the trailers and personal conveyances that clog our interstates. Multiple lanes terminate at various points across the country. At those points are hubs that spider out to stations in the various cities in that region.
The two center lanes terminate at a hub at each ocean.
Solar panels line all surfaces of the structure including the massive sleds. Since the corridors would need to be elevated, and since they would have their own source of electrical energy surplus, High-speed electric bullet trains could be built into the structures as well.

You be flexible - I'm broke and going under poverty fast.
A tank of gas now lasts me 1 month unless society forces me to drive out of town. I still can't live on my pay.
I have to make $18ph to make it worth driving the 50 miles per day to get to a new job (small town demographics) and the jobs available are only paying $14 - 15 ph.
I used my stimulus check to fill my tank, buy food stocks and pay back utility bills. How does me paying electric bill stimulate anything except the stockholders.
There are free energy source available that could be utilized if someone had the guts to back them. The oil companies know about them, hell, they probably control the patents on them so they can keep...

You be flexible - I'm broke and going under poverty fast.
A tank of gas now lasts me 1 month unless society forces me to drive out of town. I still can't live on my pay.
I have to make $18ph to make it worth driving the 50 miles per day to get to a new job (small town demographics) and the jobs available are only paying $14 - 15 ph.
I used my stimulus check to fill my tank, buy food stocks and pay back utility bills. How does me paying electric bill stimulate anything except the stockholders.
There are free energy source available that could be utilized if someone had the guts to back them. The oil companies know about them, hell, they probably control the patents on them so they can keep them out of the public eye.
When is it going to be enough? When are we going to stop the demand? When are we the sheeple going to stop milling around and force a change?

If I wrecked my car today, a replacement of any value would be beyond my means. I work 1 mile from where I live. I will be buying a bicycle when I get some money saved, problem is there is no money left to save. I am broke the day I get paid due to utilities and food.
I advocate few things in reality - one thing I advocate is a reduction of greed across the board. The only reason prices are so high and costs are so high is because we greedy people know people will pay thru the ass for something they want. Manufacturing has streamlined and automated over the years making the costs involved in producing goods go down and the sale value go way up.
You spout off about the costs but there are co...

If I wrecked my car today, a replacement of any value would be beyond my means. I work 1 mile from where I live. I will be buying a bicycle when I get some money saved, problem is there is no money left to save. I am broke the day I get paid due to utilities and food.
I advocate few things in reality - one thing I advocate is a reduction of greed across the board. The only reason prices are so high and costs are so high is because we greedy people know people will pay thru the ass for something they want. Manufacturing has streamlined and automated over the years making the costs involved in producing goods go down and the sale value go way up.
You spout off about the costs but there are costs that exist if we don't make a change that will cost even more.
Our problems in society is NOT high gas prices or limited natural resources. Our problem is greed for the almighty buck. Until we can exist as a society without that greed we are cursed to struggle for all advancements, whether it be alternative fuels, medical advancements or space exploration. What is the biggest barrier to mining asteroids? Money!
What keeps us from developing FREE ENERGY sources? MONEY.
Its the greedy bastards that are keeping us hooked on oil. Stock holders squeel for more profits, which raises prices which makes them squeel for more profits. We are all blinded by buckage.

The only reason prices are so high and costs are so high is because we greedy people know people will pay thru the ass for something they want.

Actually, there are two reasons prices are high, they are supply and demand. With world wide demand increasing what do we expect will happen when we restrict any increases in supply?

And you keep talking about greed, yet the oil company runs on one of the lowest profit margins out there. The only reason they make lots of money is volume. You are right about us being greedy though. No one gave a damn when oil companies were losing money, but when the money they have invested over the years starts to pay off, our elected officials (who...

The only reason prices are so high and costs are so high is because we greedy people know people will pay thru the ass for something they want.

Actually, there are two reasons prices are high, they are supply and demand. With world wide demand increasing what do we expect will happen when we restrict any increases in supply?

And you keep talking about greed, yet the oil company runs on one of the lowest profit margins out there. The only reason they make lots of money is volume. You are right about us being greedy though. No one gave a damn when oil companies were losing money, but when the money they have invested over the years starts to pay off, our elected officials (who already make three times off oil what the oil companies make) want to take even more of that money away. That is greed, and it is also something that will increase the price of energy for you and me.

OIL PRICING 101... There is a fundamental error/misunderstanding in the public's perception of oil pricing and profits. The price which is communicated by the media is the 'spot market' price only, i.e., the last 10% of crude oil out of the ground, not under long term contract, before conversion into any number of products or uses. The other 90% of crude oil is already subject to long-term contract and pricing... pricing far less than the 'spot market' price so widely disseminated.

Historically, the oil industry has shared fondness for 'creative accounting' with the movie/television industries. Any conclusion a reader of the balance sheets in either industry forms must be countered with an ...

OIL PRICING 101... There is a fundamental error/misunderstanding in the public's perception of oil pricing and profits. The price which is communicated by the media is the 'spot market' price only, i.e., the last 10% of crude oil out of the ground, not under long term contract, before conversion into any number of products or uses. The other 90% of crude oil is already subject to long-term contract and pricing... pricing far less than the 'spot market' price so widely disseminated.

Historically, the oil industry has shared fondness for 'creative accounting' with the movie/television industries. Any conclusion a reader of the balance sheets in either industry forms must be countered with an immediate question as to which numbers were presented by corporate management. In neither industry are 'usual and customary' accounting practices consistent with practices in the rest of the business world.

The oil industry... when it suits them... uses the 'spot market' to value crude oil purchased under lower priced, long-term contracts. It is in this differential where we find ‘windfall profits’… oil companies whining to the public and Congress/White House their profit margins being small on top of their cost of crude oil (based falsely on the ‘spot market’ price) when in fact their costs are relatively small because their costs of crude oil are historically small based upon long term contracts which are far more favorable to the major oil companies.

The ‘spot market’ provides convenient, phony cover for so-called ‘windfall profits’. Contrary to the linguistic suggestion that such profits happen by chance, ‘windfall profits’ arise by the careful design of the oil industry. And, the willful complicity of our political leaders who should know better, but, as per usual, suck up and under when ‘big money’ confronts the public interest.