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Cash for Volts?

Revenge of the Electric Car

WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Move over, cash for clunkers. By contrast, hybrid vehicles that mix traditional internal- combustion engines with electric power accounted for less than 3% of car sales in 2008, more than a decade after their introduction. November 16, 2009: 06:01 PM ET. By Judith Burns. Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES.

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Perspective: Drive Star Conversion Program Could Cut US Oil Use in Half by 2020

Green Car Congress

And oil only seems cheap. We’ll add targeted incentives to jump-start this successor to the $4,500 “Cash for Clunkers” program. But let’s realize: defending our nation is never cheap. We can’t continue ever-riskier experiments to get oil from remote locations. Its impacts are increasingly unaffordable.

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