$53 Billion for High Speed Rail?

[merrylander]

Hammacher Shlemmer will sell you a flying car for a mere $300,000 (why they send me their catalogs I really don't know).

Bit more than that but then we go first class.

Putting corn likker in gasoline is the dumbest effing move I have ever seen. Of course Archer Daniel Midlands thinks it's great and they own Grassley. My Ford Probe with a 2.2 litre four used to give good gas mileage until the screwed about mixing ethanol and gasoline. When I bought the Impala LS with a 3.8 litre V6 it gave me the same gas mileage as the Ford was doing. Once they programmed and designed to engines to be able to burn that shit it was one thing. But cars designed and built before E85 watched their gas mileage go into the toilet. And yes it is hell on plastic, my Ariens tractor has a plastic tube inside the gas tank. When the engine stopped running I pulled it out and it was full of holes.