No blood for batteries

As a follow-up to our last post about Obama’s electric car support, here’s an article from the Christian Science Monitor that makes an interesting point: many of the companies receiving federal money under the President’s initiative are battery manufacturers. Most electric and hybrid car batteries are foreign-made, even in cars assembled here, and Obama doesn’t want batteries to become the new oil, an import-only resource that leaves us dependent on other countries and colors our international relations. Not saying there will be battery wars or anything, but it is important that we produce at least some of these technological components here.

Although if there were battery wars, we hope America would seize control of the Giant Energizer Bunny before our enemies did.