Last week, I had the opportunity of test driving a vehicle that, in a variety of driving scenarios, uses considerably less gasoline than conventional cars. When booting around the city, it almost uses no gas at all. Instead, it relies mostly on electricity from the grid. Just plug into a wall socket overnight and you're ready to go in the morning.
Interested? You should be – it could be the kind of car sitting in your driveway 10 years, even five years, from now. ... more here ...
Even for someone like me, who's gotten fuel consumption down to 4 1/2 gallons a week, this retrofit is appealing.
What should we be doing? Quit subsidizing oil companies and give individual American citizens substantial incentives (and I mean substantial) to switch to gas-sippers or EV's.
