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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

Green Car Congress

The combination of harvesting whole forests and burning long-sequestered carbon sources such as coal or oil has impaired the Earth’s carbon cycle at an increasing pace. We also mined or extracted and burned coal and oil, releasing millions of years of stored solar energy indiscriminately, altering Earth’s climate.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

near Motorola, and another 20 or so work in San Francisco, not far from Apple. His people at MidAmerican have studied clean technologies like batteries and wind power for years because of the threat of climate change. operations are small - about 20 people work in a sales and marketing outpost in Elk Grove Village, Ill.,

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