Hat tip: Modern Mechanix. From the April 1902 issue of Scientific American. Kewl.

"There are things you can do individually, though, to save energy. Making sure your tires are properly inflated - simple thing. But we could save all the oil that they're talking about getting off drilling - if everybody was just inflating their tires? And getting regular tune-ups? You'd actually save just as much!" Words of wisdom from The One. (Watch the video.)

Whoa, Jack Bauer is a quick draw with the power tools. V.1.0 is, of course, just a prototype, though. Since he ran the electrical power plant on a fast attack nuclear sub (I don't really know what that means, but I sure wish we'd get on the stick here in the U.S. and build some nuclear power plants like Japan and France) for several years, I'm frankly expecting the final product to be really ... amazing.

I remember being in Whole Foods in Santa Fe years ago when that controlled burn got out of control up around Los Alamos and the National Lab and folks were whispering in the grocery aisles, next to the arugula no doubt, about how the whole nuclear facility might just blow up if it caught on fire.

You know, go totally nuclear. And we'd all be irradiated, according to the Whole Foods crowd--

--whom, I believe, were stocking up in the case of an armageddon. (I also heard some feverish whispering about Godzilla.)

Now, I admit, not being a scientist, I did phone Jack Bauer and ask him about that, actually, as soon as I put my groceries in the car. If eye rolling over the telephone is possible, well, that was his response.

Here's what I want, Mr. and Ms. Politican: I'd like an electric car powered by electricity generated from a nuclear power plant.

In the meantime, since $10 a gallon gas may be in our future according to the elitist, chablis-sipping crowd, we'll keep working away on the Wind Wagon. Possibly while shining up the firearms and clinging to our bibles. Heck, I might get one of those government grants from the Messiah.

I'd have to make sure the tires were properly inflated, though.