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June 9, 2008 – Vol.13 No.12 Plug In America (PIA) Calls on Americans to Demand Electric Cars. As gas hits $4 a gallon nationwide the electric car advocacy group urges Americans to call the auto companies and demand electrics. “Call Toyota, call GM, call Ford, call them all and tell them that you won’t buy another car until it can be plugged in and charged with electricity,” said Linda Nicholes, president of PIA, the organization leading the nation’s electric car movement. “Americans must demand the choice to drive cars that run on cleaner, cheaper, domestic electricity.” Thousands of EVs were crushed by Toyota, GM and other automakers in the early to mid-2000s as portrayed in the documentary, “Who Killed the Electric Car?” And consumers, the award-winning film concluded, were among those guilty of the crime. Some 20 auto companies are developing all-electric or plug-in hybrid electric cars. Even where such cars are charged with electricity produced by older, dirtier coal plants, they emit fewer greenhouse gasses than gasoline vehicles, according to a 2007 study by the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Electric Power Research Institute.
Plug In America has published a list of major auto companies and appropriate phone numbers on its website and encourages Americans to take action now. Plug In America is a California-based nonprofit organization that advocates the use plug-in cars, trucks and SUVs powered by cleaner, cheaper, domestic electricity to reduce our nation's dependence on petroleum and improve the global environment. (6/9/08)
Links: Plug In America Plug In America list of major auto companies
Related: --- Gearing Up for Electric Drive
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