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Philadelphia Joins Coalition

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W HEREAS, The over-reliance of America on foreign oil has become a growing and serious threat to the economic vitality and national security interests of the United States; and W HEREAS, Automobile emissions are a major contributing factor to global warming and to smog in our cities, which threaten the health of our citizens and the sustainability (..)

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Obama embraces PHEVs

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Barack Obama on Energy Independence Remarks of Senator Barack Obama Governor's Ethanol Coalition Washington, DC Feb. 28, 2006 In this year's State of the Union address, President Bush told us that it was time to get serious about America's addiction to foreign oil. In his plan, he calls for all government cars to be plug-ins.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Ford Chairman and CEO Bill Ford at 2006 Shareholders Meeting ) GM top 12/31/07 [GM Vice Chairman Bob] Lutz, 75, is undergoing a green conversion in the twilight of his career. "I The electrification of the automobile is inevitable." Because nobody has fully figured out the optimum use of lithium-ion batteries in automobiles.

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