This is what Senator Barack Obama was talking about. We don’t need to do squat about high gas prices; What we need to do is push alternatives. The government needs to pour money into these technologies. It will not help us today but it will help over the next three to five years by reducing our dependence on oil. Isn’t that the true goal? (The real goal should be to give these oil producing countries a big, beautiful raspberry– or the Bronx salute, if you will).
This car, the Tesla, clearly isn’t for everyone but it shows us that the technology is already here. The Tesla is an electric sports car. It is priced in the range of a Porsche because it is as fast as a Porsche. Now, take this same technology and put it into a family car that can go 225 miles on a full charge. Now, that should meet 90 percent of American’s daily driving needs. This isn’t the pie-in-the-sky technology that we have been promised for the past 25 years. This car is in production now!!!
This technology is the way to release the strangle hold that the Middle East and Russia have on us. Let’s drop this silly gas tax holiday and pass a bill that will give tax credits to gas stations that put in hydrogen pumps. We also need to give tax credits to anyone opening an electric car dealership and usinesses that place electric plugins in their parking garages. The Small Business Administration should offer low-interest loans to businesses that invest in these alternative technologies. Now, we will see who is really with the Big Oil companies and who is not. This is REAL change!!!
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