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Create jobs by rebuilding and modernizing our infrastructure: From fixing roads and bridges, to laying improved rail lines, sound walls, pedestrian safety measures, etc. This can all be done while installing solar photovoltaic panels or thin film photovoltaic skins on signs, billboards, locomotives and train cars, bus shelters, etc.

Create a tax incentive taking 50% of the current subsidies to Big Oil for use in weatherizing and energy efficient purchases for residential owners. Halt all road construction and begin spending the money on rail and light rail. Purchase only hybrid vehicles at every level of government. Begin bringing our forces out of iraq. Send 20% of the reduction in forces to finish the job in afganistan. Bring the rest home. Make Iraq pay for the infrastructure improvements. Plant a garden

The cold war era policy to expand highways has destroyed older American cities by slicing up neighborhoods and contributing to an unsustainable use of energy for shipping and transporting. Let's redesign how we move stuff and ourselves with greater efficiency. The cost of gas for cars and planes will only go higher. Instead of leasing toll roads to foreign companies, we urgently need to build a nationwide high speed rail system designed to serve people by saving energy and the environment.