Candidate Diaries we've forgotten that we used to do long term tech and science policy articles all the time.  You have nothing to apologize for.  We have to look ahead too.

a particular hobby horse of mine is that lots of our short distance trucking will likely be diesel engines and biofuels.  For all our petroleum fueled diesel powered trucks, America has never given the diesel engine a real fair shake, probably because crude designs were good enough when fossil fuel was cheap.  We are going to need a short distance "drayage" load capacity to deliver freight to trains.

Now if we would just build the trains!