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21. We won't recover until we face the challenges of our time and stop living in the past.

We need to find more efficient ways to organize transportation, and in searching for them we should focus on fuel efficiency even more than we are. We should switch from long-distance freight hauling by train to hauling by faster rail.

We need to reward people who switch to gas-efficient cars and trucks. And people who switch to really low mileage vehicles or who insulate their homes and switch to solar for their houses should be given outright bonuses of some sort, not just tax relief. That would encourage low-income people and seniors to change their energy consumption.

If we could stop wasting so much on energy, we could use our savings for paying debt.