Well, the organizer at least thinks it's for real:
http://www.velonews.com/news/fea/13403.0.html

But, with UCI saying "It's too long", and being double the distance of the
TdF, I don't think it will happen the way he thinks it's going to.

You could maybe do something like start in NY, go through the NE, Ohio to
Chicago, take a rest day & jet to Omaha, spend some time in the Rockies
getting to Boulder & Denver, then to SLC, Utah, another rest day & jet to
Reno, then into California and end up at SF. Probably could be done in 3
weeks & with the long (relatively) jets over some of the middle flats, you'd
have a more TdF type race with some really tough mountain stages in the
eastern Rockies & in Utah, but not stupid distances like the guy's proposing
now.

But hey, all I've got is common sense; he's got 25 "experts" advising him to
go through Podunk, TX & the hottest parts of the country in September.

Matthew Klahn