QuoteSimon Marchaux's mini-nukes.
So after spending a few trillion to upgrade the transportation network what gets shipped?
If we have no diesel there is no bunker fuel. Nothing is coming in from China. Trade between American city states? Chicago sends its laundry to Detroit and Detroit sends dirty laundry to Chicago. What kind of economy is that. If we do not know what the world will look like, how do we know what to build? Have city workers put down video games and moved to the boondocks to do farmin? The new world is a transformed world, and the interstate transport system has nothing to transport if they have not.
What happens when they don't want to stop playing video games and won't move to nowhere do farmin?