Auto Industry Average 35mpg By 2020

Congress Sends Bill Raising Fuel Efficiency

...The centerpiece of the bill remained the requirement for automakers to increase their industrywide vehicle fuel efficiency by 40 percent to an industry average of 35 mpg by 2020, compared with today's 25 mpg when including passenger cars, SUVs and small trucks. Congress has not changed the auto mileage requirement since it was first enacted in 1975.

300mpg $30,000 Electric Car

300mpg Car Will Be Here In 2009

Today, a California car maker named Aptera Motors officially took the wraps off of two new car models which offer crazy fuel economy. The first model will arrive in Q4 2008 as an all-electric vehicle with a maximum range of120 miles priced below $30,000. A true fuel-electric hybrid model will follow in 2009. Early tests indicate the hybrid model achieves 300 miles per gallon, making an affordable gas sipper within budget for many American families.

The Rich Getting Richer

Report Says The Rich Are Getting Richer Faster
...The total income of the top 1.1 million households was $1.8 trillion, or 18.1 percent of the total income of all Americans, up from 14.3 percent of all income in 2003. The total 2005 income of the three million individual Americans at the top was roughly equal to that of the bottom 166 million Americans, analysis of the report showed... Earlier reports, based on tax returns, showed that in 2005 the top 10 percent, top 1 percent and fractions of the top 1 percent enjoyed their greatest share of income since 1928 and 1929.

Energy, Food, Clothing Rising In US

U.S. Consumer Prices Surge

Energy prices gained 5.7 per cent last month, pushed higher by a rise of more than nine per cent in gasoline costs. Food costs shot up by 0.3 per cent in November, leading to a year-over-year increase of 4.8 per cent, the highest since December 1990. Clothing also cost consumers more, as prices rose by 0.8 per cent in the month. That was the biggest price hike since April 1999.

Glow In The Dark

Korean Scientists Produce Kitties

South Korean scientists have cloned Turkish Angora cats with a red fluorescence protein which makes them emit an eerie glow when exposed to ultraviolet light.

Iran: Americans Are Spying On Us

Iran Accuses US of Nuclear Espionage

Iran has sent a formal protest note to Washington for "spying" on Iran's nuclear activities, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Saturday in the wake of the latest US report on the alleged Iranian weapons program.

Mystery Meat

Mystery Meat Macrophotography
We're about to take you on a journey into some sick macrophotography of processed meat products.

In Iraq For The Long Term

Iraq As A Pentagon Construction Site

The single enduring fact of the Iraq War may be this constant building and upgrading of U.S. bases. ..... the bases went up on an impressive scale, massively fortified, sometimes 15-20 square miles in area, housing up to tens of thousands of troops and private contractors, with multiple bus routes, traffic lights, fast-food restaurants, PXs, and other amenities of home, and reeking of the kind of investment that practically shouts out for, minimally, a relationship of a distinctly "enduring" nature....the gigantic new U.S. Embassy, possibly the largest in the world, being built on an almost Vatican-sized plot of land inside Baghdad's Green Zone. It is meant to be a citadel, a hardened universe of its own, in, but not of, the Iraqi capital....

Gates: Iran Still A Threat

Gates: Iran Could Restart Weapons Program
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates argued forcefully at a Persian Gulf security conference Saturday that U.S. intelligence indicates Iran could restart its secret nuclear weapons program "at any time" and remains a major threat to the region.

Iran Stops Selling Oil In U.S. Dollars

Iran Stops Selling Oil In U.S. Dollars

Iran has completely stopped selling any of its oil for U.S. dollars, an Iranian news agency reported on Saturday, citing the oil minister of the world's fourth-largest crude producer.