Your utility bill is rising because we stopped building. Utilities have already requested $29 billion in rate increases for just the first half of this year, hitting 40 million Americans. For decades, regulated utilities collected maintenance fees while deferring real infrastructure investment. Now they're scrambling to rebuild aging systems while demand from AI, data centers, and electrification surges. When you don't build ahead, scarcity pricing kicks in and consumers pay the premium. This goes beyond utility bills. It's about building the backbone of a modern economy. Taiwan is investing $30 billion in grid upgrades to protect its semiconductor leadership. Europe launched REPowerEU to take control of its energy future. Other countries are building, while we are debating permits. If we want to lead, we need to treat the grid as core economic infrastructure, not just a utility. That means building more clean generation, more transmission, more storage, and doing it faster and smarter. Build like our economic future depends on it, because it does.