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" Fantastic op-ed by Tom Friedman in today&amp;#039;s NY Times (http://select.nytimes.com/2007/01/10/opinion/10friedman.html?hp). Friedman has been on something of an energy tear lately, and he&amp;#039;s proving himself one of the more reasonable, articulate and well-studied voices in mainstream energy reporting.  I&amp;#039;ve been following the Detroit Auto Show from my laptop and am encouraged by the amount of buzz regarding electric cars. A few nights ago, we watched Who Killed The Electric Car?, a fascinating documentary about GM&amp;#039;s EV1, which showed great promise back in the late 90&amp;#039;s. The debate rages of what caused the premature death of that program (see the movie), but surely $1 gas didn&amp;#039;t help.  I&amp;#039;ll go out on a limb and say that we&amp;#039;ll never see $1 gas again, although I think the factors driving (no pun intended) the latest round of electric and hybrid rigs are related to climate change, as much as finances. In that regard, I think these warm winters are perhaps a good thing: It&amp;#039;s hard to ignore what&amp;#039;s staring you in the face or, in the case of January mud, squishing under your shoes. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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