Some politicians are calling for up-grading and repairing our infrastructure. Indeed that is a smart idea, as any time you improve the flows of your civilization you get back 10-fold in efficiency. But in the interim you often cause bottlenecks during construction and actually harm the flows and efficiencies of the civilization.

Now then the worst time to do construction, create bottlenecks or up-grade infrastructure is at a time when the flows of transportation are in crisis. That would be now with oil barrel prices approaching $85.00 as we move into our peak Hurricane Season and march off to war or a major showdown in the nuclear crisis with Iran. High oil prices along with over-regulation has put our Transportation Sector in a major crisis and this is no time to add delays or bottlenecks to the flows of civilization. But lets flash back to the recent past in 2001 one with similar conditions. High oil prices, over regulation and too much construction. Here is an excerpt of an article I wrote back then;