Ten years after the Clean Air Act banned the sale of leaded fuel for use in on-road vehicles, the organization that puts car AND automobile in its acronym, just to be sure, is planning to stop using leaded fuels in most of its races.

This is a good thing. But why not take it a step further and stop using fuel altogether? I have drawn a blueprint for the next-gen NASCAR vehicle that will help George Bush with his efforts to wean us off our addiction to oil.

It’s actually powered by the driver’s feet. A crude estimate for the total fuel consumption for the NASCAR season using the present cars is 387,000 gallons.