Build McCain's Magic Battery and win fabulous prizes!

McMaverick has announced his plans for solving the energy crisis with an exciting new contest!

CNN:

Sen. John McCain on Monday called for a $300 million prize to whoever can develop a battery that will "leapfrog" the abilities of current hybrid and electric cars.

Sen. John McCain wants someone to develop a battery that can "leapfrog" those available in current electric cars.

Citing high oil prices, the Republican presidential candidate said he wants his offer to "deliver a power source at 30 percent of the current costs."

Why invest in a national effort following the model of the Apollo Program and focus government research and development on solutions when you can give a massive jackpot to some guy working in his shed?

Obama responds (via Detroit News):

"When John F. Kennedy decided that we were going to put a man on the moon, he didn't put a bounty out for some rocket scientist to win -- he put the full resources of the United States government behind the project and called on the ingenuity and innovation of the American people," the Illinois senator said in a speech in Las Vegas. "That's the kind of effort we need to achieve energy independence in this country, and nothing less will do."

Apaprently Obama didn't pick up on the gaming spirit while he was in Vegas.

Why should McCain stop with the energy crisis?

- Why not give away a Hawaiian vacation to the person that comes up with a way out the housing crisis?

- Find a way to achieve stability in Iraq and this washer/dryer combo can be yours!

- And finally, erase our staggering national debt by offering $500 million and a lifetime supply of Cool Whip to the first American to create a working time machine!*

*Don't worry about how such a prize would add to the debt. Once we go back in time and give officials the winning Powerball numbers, happy days will be here again! (or maybe they already are - because technically if you go into the past from the future, said changes would already be in effect in the present ... I think. Time travel confuses me)



-Photo: AP, Art: Metro