Sick and tired of high gas prices? Consider the Compressed Air Vehicle (CAV): It gets 106 miles a gallon (45 kilometers a liter), can go 96 miles (155 kilometers) an hour, and costs less than US$18,000. And CAV manufacturing is coming to the U.S., most likely in the Northeast or California, as this week's SiteNet Dispatch reports. It's a Clean Machine: The CAV, invented by Motor Development International Chairman and Managing Director Guy Negre (pictured), will emit about 70 percent less CO2 than Toyota's Prius Plug-in Hybrid. This week's SiteNet Dispatch brings readers new and exclusive stories from the May 2008 issue of Site Selection, including: Malaysia: "Pieces in Place" Iowa: "Substance per Capita" Special Ad Section - Sale-Leaseback Transactions: "Sale-Leaseback Strategies in Tough Times" THE SITENET DISPATCH IS SPONSORED BY: Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development and North Carolina's Touchstone Energy Cooperatives.

Expansion in the Air: Siemens Power Generation is one of the many companies expanding in Iowa. It was only in August of 2007 that Siemens' wind turbine plant in Fort Madison shipped out its first giant product (pictured above). By February of this year, the company had decided to enlarge the Fort Madison facility, announcing a $33-million, 287-job expansion. There's more expansion news online in global project coverage from London-based partner Oxford Intelligence. This week's installment includes: "Neste Oil to Establish Dutch Plant" "Honda to Invest in Philippines" "Irdeto Opens Office in Japan" "Daewoo Plans Plant in Poland" "T-Systems Opens Office in Singapore" Photo: World's Largest Things Where In the World? This life-size statue commemorates "the world's tallest man," who stood almost nine feet (2.73 meters) tall - and lived a quiet but quite remarkable life. Can you name the city in which this statue sits? Copacetic clicking, Jack Lyne Site Selection Executive Editor of Interactive Publishing

Upcoming Conferences and Expositions of Note Read more on the expanded events calendar at SiteNet.com. June 25 - 27, 2008 Cityscape China Shanghai New International Expo Centre, Shanghai, China July 9 - 11, 2008 C40 World Ports Climate Conference Rotterdam, Netherlands July 24 - 25, 2008 Workforce Development for Economic Developers Training Course Four Points Sheraton BWI Airport Hotel, Baltimore, MD August 17 - 19, 2008 Americas Competitiveness Forum Atlanta, GA August 27 - 29, 2008 International Conference: Urban Development, Regeneration and Finance University of Ulster, Jordanstown Campus, Belfast, Northern Ireland September 8 - 11, 2008 CIFIT - China International Fair for Investment & Trade Xiamen, China September 13 - 17, 2008 IAMC Fall 2008 Professional Forum The Skirvin Hilton and the Colcord, Oklahoma City, OK Good reasons for Aschersleben/Germany - 'Investors are cordially welcomed!' Aschersleben anticipates successfully siting four new businesses this year with an investment volume of ca. 12 million euros. Two new companies set up shop in 2007 with a capital expenditure of 7 million euros. Six firms carried out expansion investments totalling 36 million euros. The majority of capital invested in Aschersleben hails from other European countries and North America. The high level of internationalization is also reflected in the high export quota of the processing industry: almost 40 per cent. Locally made products are exported to the UK, France, Eastern Europe, China, Russia and the US. Production of non-wovens has been a fixed factor in the town's economic structure since the 1990s. Trade and industrial estates provide further space for growth: another 27 hectares (67 acres) net area were made available during the current expansion phase of trade estate 'Güstener Straße'. www.invest-in-saxony-anhalt.com paid advertisment CONDUCT LOCATION RESEARCH ON ANY U.S. STATE OR COMMUNITY DevelopmentAlliance.com has always offered detailed state, county, metropolitan and micropolitan statistical data for companies seeking new business locations in the U.S. ... The Web site enables comparisons of critical data sets from every U.S. county and gives corporate site selectors the ability to select up to five communities at once for a side-by-side comparison. Now you can also find important international data through our International Guide. This is a free service of Conway Data, Site Selection magazine, SiteNet.com and the International Economic Development Council. Just log on to DevelopmentAlliance.com and find out what thousands of other site selectors have already discovered: DevelopmentAlliance.com is the place to go when conducting Internet-based research on possible business locations. FREE LOCATION ASSISTANCE is just a click away! NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION SIGN UP FOR SITENET DISPATCH Did a friend forward you this e-mail? Sign up for your own free e-mail newsletter by visiting http://www.sitenet.com MISSING ISSUES? Please add SiteNet Dispatch [dispatch@sitenet.com] to your address book to prevent your email system from filtering our newsletters as spam. Look at our online archive to find what you missed, http://www.sitenet.com/dispatch/archive.cfm FEEDBACK Please send comments about content to Adam Bruns or suggestions for how to improve this newsletter to Shannon Landin. MAGAZINE CUSTOMER SERVICE For magazine subscription concerns such as back issues, address changes, and account status information, please visit our customer service department at http://www.siteselection.com/response Would you prefer to read this newsletter in your web browser? Click here. The SiteNet Dispatch is best viewed at a screen resolution of 800 x 600 or larger. The SiteNet Dispatch is a free service of SiteNet (http://www.sitenet.com), the Internet's premier source of corporate real estate and economic development information. Copyright 2008, Conway Data, Inc. All Rights Reserved. You are subscribed as: eeee To change the format in which you receive this email, update your contact information or cancel your subscription, please click here.