"There is nothing predestined about technological progress and scientific discovery. [...]
Stagnation was a choice. We have weighed down our builders and innovators. The well-intentioned regulatory regime of the 1970s became an ever-tightening ratchet, first hampering America’s ability to become a net-energy exporter and then making it harder and harder to build [...]
But we are capable of so much more."
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