as important as actually coming up with the money and airports need a lot of that according to a study by airports council international u.s. airports need an estimated seventy five point seven billion dollars in infrastructure investment through twenty nineteen but american airports don't only need an upgrade they require a deep comprehensive plan if that doesn't happen the country that saw the birth of aviation will. struggle to compete in the twenty first century nicholas i don't know than ati and. oil and natural gas are driving forces behind much of the nation's energy and the transport behind it lies in our country's pipeline infrastructure for a closer look are to cya tablature reports. the us are only the largest consumer of oil consume twenty million barrels a day just in two thousand and seventeen but that wouldn't be possible without pipelines that transport the fuel from its source to the market and also the u.s. has fallen behind internationally as soon as a rapid decline and its infrastructure when it comes to telecommunications transportation and water the one critical bright spot has been on energy thanks to what has