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.

With no guaranty that the virus is being defeated or will not return even harder in the fall and winter, and with perhaps the most pressing needs in our lifetimes to fix our national infrastructure, create jobs, and pay as we do so, an historic opportunity has arisen to do all of that, should we muster the political will to actually do what common sense tells us should be done.