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Senator John McCain has a great idea - offer a 300-million-dollar prize to the person who can develop an automobile battery that leapfrogs existing technology. The prize would equate to $1 for every man, woman and child in the United States. McCain calls that "a small price to pay for helping to break the back of our oil dependency."


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