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Tuesday, September 2, 2008:
Unless you are living in a cave, you've seen the T. Boone Pickens TV ad making the case that we need to use more of our country's wind resources to reduce the amount of imported oil. We like that as far as it goes, but a Washington Post op-ed from this past weekend makes a good point: Another part of Pickens plan -- shifting natural gas away from electricity production to use in powering cars -- doesn't make sense when plug-in hybrid's are so close to entering the market. Natural gas is a fossil fuel that still emits greenhouse gases, whereas increased wind energy production could be used to fuel plug-in hybrids, providing a clean electricity source for the zero emissions vehicles. ... California still leads the country in hybrid purchases. A new report released by the Polk Center for Automotive Studies and The Travelers Cos. Inc. reports: "For the year to date through May, 39,830 new hybrids were registered in California, almost five times as many as in Florida, the next closet state with 8,810 registrations. New York, Texas and Illinois rounded out the top five states." The top cities for hybrid sales were Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Washington, D.C. and Chicago, IL. More and more insurance companies are offering discounts on insurance for hybrids, including Travelers which offers a 10 percent discount. ... Interested in building your own diesel-hybrid vehicle? A design company in Phoenix, Arizona is selling design plans for a three-wheeled hybrid that could achieve 225 miles per gallon ...
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008:
It's not only car sales lots where hybrids are a hot commodity. With gas prices still high relative to last year, many travelers are trying to ease the pain at the pump by renting hybrid vehicles. At the car rental counter, hybrids are still in short supply and the demand is causing rental agencies to charge a premium. ... Could "multi-fuel" cars be another option that could help both with our global warming crisis and the pain in our pockets? We're not sure of the answer but Salon.com is posing the question ... Enough already with the Prius-owners-are-eco-snobs stories! The steady stream of us-against-them stories strikes us as being a total media fabrication ... Your grandfather -- or great grandfather! -- may have owned an electric car. No kidding. ...
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