[Por_sha911]

The bold and beautiful future presented has some roadblocks.
-Cheap energy: costs will go up as people with an environmental agenda push tighter restrictions.
-Politics: politicians are going to pork barrel the industries that support their state.
-Less cars = little or no gas tax, highway tolls... Oh, you jump in and say we'll tax electricity generated for EV's. Fine go back to point #1 and tell me about cheap energy. With gas tax reduced or gone, electricity (for everything and not just your EV) will skyrocket. The utilities will have to double the current cost of power because the current grid cannot handle more demand as envisioned in our bold new future. You will pay for the upgrades with higher power costs. Ask anyone living on L.I. NY back when LILCO and Con Ed decided to go with Nuke plants. They jacked up rates to pay for the new plants and said when they were producing our rates would go lower than ever before due to the cheap electricity they could produce. That never happened.
-Greed: someone will want you to pay for the cool new and better stuff. Costs go up, not down. Modern medicine is the finest in all of history. The cost is the highest in all of history. Obamacare didn't make it any better so don't bank on socialism helping you out.

Bottom line: I want my flying car that was promised at the 1962 Worlds Fair.