sulli's Journal: Everyone wants "a new Manhattan project"

Boing Boing reports on an article in The Week magazine advocating plug-in hybrids (a good idea) but then bringing out the old canard urging a "new Manhattan project" to encourage these, rather than simply extending current tax breaks and encouraging aftermarket producers to build kits to let users upgrade their cars.

Why not simply let users upgrade and let the smarter automakers figure out the opportunity, instead of sending a bunch of tax dollars to GM, Ford, and DaimlerChrysler, who will waste them on the Job Bank?