American Ingenuity- That's the ticket

Recall when the President said this?  Well!  By golly and by gosh, there may be a way to deal with all of this with an invention.  Shall I mention it here?  I already have! 

You don't get it? An airship with its ability to go airborne with little energy applied- combined with solar power that can propel the ship forward to your desired destination. That's it in a nutshell. Now all you need to do is to build it.

The trouble is, you need to manufacture the thing and I don't a factory handy.  Shucks!  There's always a catch!

Update:

The need is to pay for these soaring energy costs, which, incidentally are due to the government's fiscal and monetary policies. Up, Up and Away! is what gold is doing.  And so is oil.  Inflation is on its way.  But if you had been paying attention here, you would have known that already.

Update:

For my own amusement and instruction, I looked up this page here to instruct myself on what size of airship I would need to lift a certain weight.  The example given on the webpage seems much bigger than what you would need for personal transportation.  I see that it is for simplification purposes. 

On closer examination, it appears that this method of transportation will have certain complications.  One is size.  The vehicle needs to be large.  You would need control mechanisms for adjusting for temperature and atmospheric pressure.  You need ways to accomodate the vehicle when it lands and to store it when you are not using it.  And so on.

The idea is so attractive though, but there's much more to it than first thought.