No, I had a physics project in high school (1994) where I proposed electricity driven mass transit (unlike anything we've done or seen before) in order to reduce the need for oil, and stop the ineffecient building of roads and parking lots. I still think it is ingenious, not without some negatives, but I still think it could work one day (just need a few hundred million to develop and an entire city willing to give up all its roads and parking lots.)
But yes, this was when I was a die hard republican too. My focus was more on how we use our space and money with roads. VERY inefficent, the majority of the day freeways are severely under utilized. Same with major parking lots. They cost a lot of build and maintain and they are barely used (as a percentage of total time). Gas was still less than 1.00 a gallon in places so people weren't screaming quite as much about that (see why I say its a GOOD thing we pay so much, I wouldn't care if gas was 10.00 per gallon, it would hurt us short term, but really motivate us to move in better directions in the future).