Sen. Lieberman plans biofuel PHEV bill: legislative breakthrough This is by far the most specific and far-reaching proposal to date.
-- Press release followed by news story: http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/calcars-news/message/169 -- Speech excerpts, outline of plan and full text of speech: http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/calcars-news/message/170 (WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO FORWARD) EXCERPTS This reality is bipartisan. My staff and I have spent as much time talking about these proposals with Republicans as with Democrats. My colleagues Senators Sam Brownback of Kansas and Evan Bayh of Indiana are particularly interested in setting America free from foreign oil dependence. We are ready to get serious, set the serious goals that eluded us in the past and take the bold steps necessary to reach those goals. ... we get the flexibility to power a car with fuel made from corn, prairie grass, or agricultural waste from our own heartland that will cost a lot less than gasoline does today.... Making them flexible fuel cars, as Ive already said, can save us more than 2 million barrels of gasoline a day. But we can do even better dramatically better with the plug-in hybrid that is just now on the threshold of commercialization. ...Plugging in your car during off peak hours when power is in surplus and cheaper would soon just become part of the modern daily routine, like plugging in your cell phone or PDA before you go to bed. And off-peak electricity can be the equivalent of 50 cent a gallon gasoline. This isnt pie in the sky. These vehicles could be in your garage within a couple of years. Some of the incentives for achieving this were included in the Energy bill signed into law in August. But they did not go nearly far enough. We need to couple these incentives with real performance standards and sales requirements to ensure that as soon as possible new cars are running not just on gasoline but on biofuels and electricity. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Felix Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Founder California Cars Initiative http://www.calcars.org http://groups.yahoo.com/group/calcars-news http://groups.yahoo.com/group/priusplus http://www.hybridcars.com/blogs/power -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
