Elting Mechanical Enterprises

Link: http://www.eltingmechanical.com

Congratulations to the winners of the Automotive X Prize. If you don't know, this was a competition to design, develop and build a vehicle to travel 100 miles on one gallon of fuel (or equivalent). For more details see their site here.

Hopefully, we all end up winners in the aftermath of this engineering contest. I sincerely hope that the gravity of this event is not lost in all the trivial matters the media focuses on, i.e. Tea Party nazis , Jersey Shore cast members, or some disgusting behavior of a Hollywood "star".

The true stars are the engineers and technicians whose efforts in improving transportation efficiencies will have a much greater impact on all our lives than the 9 billion dollar atom smasher at CERN. This event should be marked as one of the most important days in world history. We as consumers need to make it known to our favorite car manufacturers that we want better, more efficient vehicles and not just more bells and whistles.