Six months of hybrid sales is doubling all of last years hybrid sales in U.S. (Link)

Here is some good news from a reliable source about

hybrid-electric vehicle sales in the U.S. Last year there

were 144,000 hybrids sold for the whole year.

Hybrid Sales by Vehicle: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance

Source: http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070917/hybrid_sales.html?.v=1?
 

From the desktop of Warren Richardson   D/FW Metroplex, pro-active

mentor for conversion to energy alternatives and carbon footprint reduction.
Moderator of http://dfw-alt-e-caucus.blogspot.com/ and

Webmaster of http://www.green-metroplex.com/ ... You are invited to come

and see how cost effective, and even profitable, it can be to go green!

Review of "Man Builds All Electric Car" in Midlands - Odessa, TX.

Today there was an apparent re-run of a TV news byte
about an EV made in Midlands - Odessa, TX a few
months ago. I built a review page about it with a link
for your reference.
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Sunday, 19 August 2007
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On the tube today there was a repeat byte about a
man in Midlands, TX entiltled Man Builds All Electric
Car, who commutes with a battery powered car. He
had mixed reactions from folks about town that
recognized his car was all electric. What was
remarkable about him and the car was that he was
not a "Greenie." His comment was, "When I started
building this car, gas was three dollars a gallon."
His battery Electric Vehicle (EV), which does not
have air conditioning, is not used by him as a way
to help the environment. He admitted that he has
a "regular car" for trips to Dallas. He was straight-
forward and honest in that after doing the numbers
he opted for an all electric car, charged when it's at
his home, in order to save money from his daily
work commute.
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In plain English, his monthly trips in town log him
850 miles per month, which has raised his monthly
home electric bill from charging the car, an
additional fifteen dollars per month over the prior
year at the same time; that's 0.0176 (two) cents
per mile.
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Here is a link to a blog about this TV news byte:
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http://www.topix.net/forum/city/odessa-tx/T34ITIEM40F23BE6T?fromrss=1
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Source http://www.green-metroplex.com/EVs/Article01.html ...
You are invited to come and see how cost
effective, even profitable it is to go green!
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PVC Poster Child

Our sister website, www.green-metroplex.com installed a new page which announces its "Poster Child" image; a PVC Water Bottle.
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Click here to read the announcement. ( http://www.green-metroplex.com/factoids/In_Vivo/PVC_Bottle.html ). Warning, have tongue clamped firmly in teeth.

Solar Electric Warriors

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If you don't surf to any other link today, surf to this one! It is the Solar Warrior websit, home base for a homeowner family in California that has tons of experience in dealing with the quiet(?) war by utilities against net-grid connection by alternative energy self-producers who built and operate a 2,880 square foot PV array. Their practical, no-nonsense information and sharing of their PhotoVoltaic experience and production, using a net-grid connection to store their excess energy collection for use at night is a real eye opener about the less than innocent reaction by their utility provider. They have a great definition of Net-Grid, too. A must see website!

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A PHEV can provide power to a home

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Did you know that, "A PHEV can provide power to your home in the case of a power grid outage?; A fleet of PHEV’s (consisting of cars, vans, trucks, firetrucks or busses with plug-in capability) can power critical systems during emergencies." Source: CalCar/Vehicles
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Additional Wikipedia Reference: Paragraph 2 Sentence 4
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And: Conversions of production hybrids to Plug-in Hybrid capability
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And: Economic Benefits of Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles
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Sent to you as a public service from the DFW Metroplex Alternative Energy Caucus
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P.S., In addition if a PHEV's engine was also converted to using flex-fuel, E-85, bio-diesel or compressed natural gas or hydrogen gas, it would be doubly capable of reducing individual or organizational imported oil dependency.
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Picture courtesy of CalCars.org