America is like a developing country, pt. 2

This Washington Post article from March 29th does another good job of summarizing my feelings.

In addition to what’s been written about how our sociopolitical structure resembles that of a developing nation, I believe the analogy is extendable to other aspects of our country.  We rely on old, polluting technologies to generate our power when the developed world is clearly progressing towards clean energy (wind and nuclear especially).  Our roads are actually in pretty bad shape; instead of maintaining them, we just build new ones.  Our heavy mass-transit systems are remnants from a century ago, and our profusion of bureaucracies, special interests, and NIMBYers always makes it difficult to expand that necessary infrastructure.  Our water infrastructure is also decrepeit.