The U.S. has passed on many opportunities to upgrade infrastructure, necessary to remain competitive in the global marketplace. That does lend support to President Joe Biden’s $3 trillion project list, emphasizing “green” investments, soon to make its way up Capitol Hill. In theory, that would align with Hawaii’s clean-energy goals, so it will be interesting to see what funding heads this way.

In practice, someone has to pay for this, so the inevitable tax-increase bill also will be interesting.