Send a Message: We Need More Hybrids and Hybrid Incentives Now!

Do you want to see more incentives for Americans to reduce our dependence on Middle Eastern oil, save money at the gas pump, and to cut global warming pollution? If so, the Hybrid Owners of America encourage you to send a letter TODAY to your members of Congress and the White House. Please take the time to speak up and be heard!

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Dear [ Decision Maker ],

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I am now or soon will be a hybrid vehicle owner.   Hybrid vehicle purchases should be encouraged because they give typical Americans a direct way to reduce our nation's addiction to Middle Eastern oil, save money at the gas pump and cut global warming pollution.

The Congress and the White House should be doing more to encourage hybrid vehicle purchases and production.  To that end, I encourage you to endorse and act on the following five-step plan:

1. Broaden the federal tax credit for hybrid vehicle purchases so that more vehicle types are eligible for the credit faster and so that popular hybrid credits do not 'fade out' so quickly.

2. Create a new and additional tax incentive that provides further assistance to individuals who convert existing hybrids into plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) in order to further increase fuel efficiency and decrease oil consumption and pollution output.

3. Provide tax and other incentives to businesses that help employees to buy hybrids, particularly when such inducements are tied to corporate strategies to mitigate global warming pollution.

4. Provide U.S. automakers that commit to more hybrid vehicle research and production with major encouragement to do so, including aid with health care and other steep costs that make it tougher for American car companies to be competitive in today's global marketplace.

5. Set a target of switching over federal vehicle fleet purchases to hybrids of 10 percent for 2007, 20 percent for 2008 and 30 percent for 2009.

The benefits for Americans of promoting greater fuel efficiency through more hybrid auto purchases are clear:  We can reduce dependence on Middle Eastern oil, making us more secure; we can lower the carbon emissions into the atmosphere that contribute to global warming; and we can put America's technology community to work on these important problems, creating jobs, ensuring that the U.S. leads in the development and sale of new technologies.

We need action now from Washington to get more hybrids on the road as soon as possible.

Please take steps now as my elected official to address this problem.  I look forward to hearing what it is that you intend to do and when.

Sincerely,
[Your name]
[Your address]

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