For example, why not rebuild the auto industry in a way that Detroit hasn't had the foresight to do? Provide incentives for new auto factories building smaller fuel efficient cars - factories & cars built here. In one program we could reward factory automation (robots), domestic job production (even with robots, you need people to run/manage factories), and attack the energy problem.

A similar example would be in textiles. Why can't a highly automated factory based in US compete with cheap manual labor overseas?