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Cash for Volts?

Revenge of the Electric Car

More details at: Group Seeks US Tax Credits To Spur Electric Car Use. to offer tax credits for buying all-electric plug-in vehicles as part of a $128 billion program to get seven million such cars on the road by 2018. UPDATE:Group Seeks US Tax Credits To Spur Electric Car Use. by Judith Burns for Dow Jones.

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

Green Car Congress

Over time, we can conserve by reducing the miles we drive. That means we’ll be powering some miles with increasingly renewable electricity that isn't made from imported oil. Payback will come because an electric mile is up to five times cheaper than a petroleum mile.

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