Coming from the energy industry, where we run power lines overhead, land rights SUCK.

There's a lot on the site to read still, but that's a bigger sticking point than materials and construction.

My company did a disaster recovery project, where it was determined that if we lost our HQ, no matter how many million dollars worth of equipment we would lose, it would pale in comparison to the recreation of the land rights documentation that have accumulated over 70 years.

But even in small shots, if they improved I-80 across the country, that would be huge. We'd lose some corn, and some grazing land, but with worse and worse droughts to come due to burning coal and oil, they won't be growing much corn in that neck of the woods for much longer.

Thanks for calling it out. More reading for another night.

or otherwise just wait for the Rapture.

After a certain price point, a national transportation grid based upon the notion of cheap gasoline collapses. That could cause massive disruption.