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Air-Powered Car Coming to U.S. in 2009 to 2010 at Sub-$18,000, Could Hit 1000-Mile Range

Zero Pollution Motors (ZPM) confirmed to PopularMechanics.com on Thursday that it expects to introduce the world’s first air-powered car for the United States by late 2009 or early 2010.

The next generation of air cars might have a 1000 mile range estimate, but not be completely air powered. You’ll need a whopping 8 gallons of regular gas, ethanol or other biofuel to get that far. That is roughly 125 miles per gallon. There are some good illustrations at the link; you won’t have to sacrifice style for going green.

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The darn gov’mint can’t do nut’in right so let’s privatize everything and give gov’mint contracts to our buddies. That’s the ticket, Inside the world of war profiteers - From prostitutes to Super bowl tickets, a federal probe reveals how contractors in Iraq cheated the U.S.

Hundreds of pages of recently unsealed court records detail how kickbacks shaped the war’s largest troop support contract months before the first wave of U.S. soldiers plunged their boots into Iraqi sand.

The graft continued well beyond the 2004 congressional hearings that first called attention to it. And the massive fraud endangered the health of American soldiers even as it lined contractors’ pockets, records show.

Federal prosecutors in Rock Island have indicted four former supervisors from KBR, the giant defense firm that holds the contract, along with a decorated Army officer and five executives from KBR subcontractors based in the U.S. or the Middle East.

KBR is part of Dick Cheney’s old employer Halliburton.

Audrey Hepburn’s screen test for Roman Holiday at YouTube.