During the past two months of COVID-19 “lockdown”, the United States has watched 30 million jobs evaporate, incurred an additional $2 trillion dollars of debt, seen our national debt exceed the GDP, and still not fixed our infrastructure.
In fighting the coronavirus, the availability of cheap, consistent, and abundant energy has allowed us to fight this scourge, but the energy infrastructure overall remains antiquated and its improvement has been stymied by political infighting.