Few issues in Washington have been as elusive as passage of legislation to address the nation's aging infrastructure. For a number of years, the White House, senators and Members of Congress have announced plans to spend billions of dollars to repair bridges, roads, waterways as well as to build information infrastructure, such as expansion of broadband capability to rural areas. More recently, many have called upon Congress to include energy production in infrastructure legislation, acknowledging the dynamic interplay between modes of transportation and the energy that powers them. In each of those instances, for a number of reasons, once the fanfare of a "major infrastructure announcement" faded away, the issue moved to the back burner, only to be resurrected again with the same end result.