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Robert Hurst is the author of The Art of [Urban] Cycling, Road Biking Colorado, Hiking Through History Colorado, The Art of Mountain Biking: Singletrack Skills for All Riders, The Cyclist’s Manifesto, Best Easy Bike Rides Denver, Best Bike Rides Denver and Boulder, Road Biking Colorado’s Front Range, Mountain Biking Colorado’s San Juan Mountains: Durango and Telluride, and The Bicycle Commuter’s Handbook.
robert @ industrializedcyclist . com
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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man’s moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it?
Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?
-- Twain
Americans want to burn that oil.
Sales of the all-electric Nissan Leaf, which can travel about 75 miles on a single overnight charge, plummeted 69 percent in June from a year earlier. Meanwhile, sales of various models of Toyota Prius hybrids are selling as fast as the automaker can ship them.
The Volt is still not an overwhelming success, but sales for the first half of 2012 more than tripled from a year earlier to 8,817.
“I can’t grasp the concept of driving 20 or 30 miles, or whatever the range is on the car, and then having to plug in again,” said Dennis Barrera, sales manager at Suburban Toyota in Troy, where the standard Prius hybrid is “still the most asked-about car (among shoppers) walking through the door.”
via U.S. drivers slow to embrace all-electric vehicles – USATODAY.com.
See also: A QUESTION FOR PRIUS OWNERS from The Industrialized Cyclist Archives.
Ouch on the $2000 home charging station installation.
Answers about charging Nissan LEAF | Nissan USA.
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