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    As the conference got underway, Steve Marshall, a senior fellow with Cascadia Center, a transportation policy research center, asked the audience to think about having "Henry Ford sitting down with Thomas Edison, and maybe Bill Gates coming in to think about what we're going to do for the next hundred years." The conference reiterated many of the reasons the U.S. needs to shift away from its economic reliance on foreign oil, and carbon-polluting, internal-combustion transportation. Full Article at Seattle Post Intelligencer
    Henry Ford sitting down with Thomas Edison, and maybe Bill Gates coming in to think about what we're going to do for the next hundred years.
    SOURCE: Seattle Post Intelligencer 1 month ago
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Seattle getting 2,500 electric car charging stations
  1. Think about how pathetic it would be to trade our current addiction to Middle Eastern oil for an addiction to Chinese lithium ion batteries. To replace one addiction for another is not a good investment strategy for growth in the United States
    SOURCE: Seattle Post Intelligencer 1 month ago
  2. Half of the electricity being generated in the U.S. is in the form of coal ... Any expansion on the demand on electricity will lead to an expansion on the demand for coal. Unless, we can find out how to deal with that... what we're doing is moving emissions from the tailpipe to the smoke stack.
    – Dave Hill SOURCE: Seattle Post Intelligencer 1 month ago
  3. If we're successful and could move immediately to electric vehicles, we would have huge problem, because there is not enough electricity
    – Dave Hill SOURCE: Seattle Post Intelligencer 1 month ago
  4. It's kind of the chicken versus the egg thing. You don't put charging stations in before you have the vehicle, but you won't get the vehicles if you don't have the charging stations
    SOURCE: Seattle Post Intelligencer 1 month ago
  5. I believe when Hollywood gets around to another remake of the Dukes of Hazzard, it will be with electric cars
    SOURCE: Seattle Post Intelligencer 1 month ago
  6. kind of torque and acceleration since I drove my brother's 404 Dodge in 1967.
    SOURCE: Seattle Post Intelligencer 1 month ago
  7. This will be a revolution
    Jay Inslee – Jay Inslee SOURCE: Seattle Post Intelligencer 1 month ago

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