My Prius gets 65 MPG!  Well big hairy deal.  Next years car will get 100 MPG….guaranteed!  The real news is the $10 Million purse the X PRIZE Foundation will give to the first company to produce a vehicle to break that golden 100 Mile Per Gallon barrier. This foundation is the same that recently paid…you guessed it….$10 million for the first suborbital space flight a few years back.  X PRIZE is dedicated to offering large amounts of money to make huge leaps for humanity.

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