100% Hybrid by 2020

This is a study by IBM in consultation with all the major car makers that concluded all new cars sold in 2020 will be, at least to some degree, hybridized. Also, they predict that 88% of the average vehicle will by then be recycled because automakers are taking the recycling priority into account when designing new vehicles so that they are cheaper to recycle. http://www.greencarcongress.com/2008/08/study-all-new-v.html

Interesting Social Proposal

http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.24092/pub_detail.asp This may not be an ideal solution, but the principles from which he derives his proposals are sound and it's far better than persisting with the status quo. This is what the Republicans should have been doing during the Bush administration on the domestic front--instead of inventing a new Medicare handout and letting a bunch of feminists pursue a Title IX inquisition into our best university science and engineering programs.