Fuelishness! Feed

• If Our Gas Taxes Go Up, Will Gas Prices Become Unfair? – Faced with dwindling cash reserves, several states are considering raising their Gas Tax. Those with efficient vehicles will come out ahead. Low income families, the trucking industry and the alternative fuel industry will finish last…
    
• Better Place answers questions about home charging, Obama’s interest – Over the weekend, we heard a story that the Obama Administration “may be adopting” the Better Place model of powering electric cars. We wanted to know more about what this means, exactly, and got the following from Better Place PR…
   
• Miles EV CEO talks about highway speed electric sedan, company’s future – “The business strategy is bringing an affordable car that is fully safety certified to the California market first; a car that is not a two-seat car or a limited-use car. It is a car that would serve as a commuter car or as a car to run errands or do things with your family. We all know what these metrics are, right? The daily commute in LA County is about 30 miles, [the rest of ] California is about 40 in weekday driving. We’re looking to have a car that people can, during the week, use as their regular car…
   
• Ethanol-powered Mustang reaches 252 mph (with video) – Want to prove that ponies like ethanol? Give Oklahoma corn farmer Brent Hajek a call. He helped get a FR500C Ford Mustang running on E85 up to 252.78 mph on the Bonneville Salt Flats is Utah back in September.
    
• Awesome Electric Bike Conversion (with video) — You need to see this…

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