When you think you have it bad, just consider the Palestinians, who are paying $50 a gallon for gas. I don’t know about you, but I’ll be hoofing it when we hit $10.

As a solution, a duo of Palestinian engineers figured out how to spend $2500 to stock a ’94 Peugeot with 30 car batteries. Tada! Electric car.

Their design is insanely efficient, and gets 110 miles out of a standard charge. (By way of comparison, the Chevy Volt, over which hundreds of GM engineers have sweated for years, will get 40 miles to a charge.) It goes 60 mph and has enough horsepower to haul some people around, basically over-meeting the transportation needs of most Palestinians -- and most Americans, for that matter.

The engineering pair, struggling to attain parts, has been deluged with orders. Ironically, the duo turned to Israelis for assistance with financing. Fayaz Anan, one of the engineers, hopefully offered “Maybe we, Israelis and Palestinians, can save the world together.”