Any of these predictions are worth what you paid for them.
Here is mine. Sometime in the future, we as a country will start to evolve a cohesive energy policy, (that does not include secret meetings at the whitehouse with oil executives) that will include a *greatly* increased railroad infrastructure. (high speed trains, electrically powered) More nuclear power plants will sooner or later be required. Oil will go up significantly from where it is now.
Two decades from now, most domestic flying will be in advanced turboprops. And it will be very pricey, and greatly reduced.
Sooner or later the realities of a limited resource will force realignment of everything. How soon and when, no one really knows. But- I firmly believe that what aviation looks like today will be vastly different in 15 or so years.
Or maybe not.
