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...electricity (approximately 11 cents per kWh), a typical Volt driver would pay about $2.75 for enough electricity to travel 100 miles, or less than 3 cents per mile. (Conversely, a gasoline-powered car that gets 20 m.p.g., for which the driver pays $3 per gallon, has a per-mile fuel cost of 15 cents...
...being consumed," according to Anthony Eggert of California's ARB. Of course, it takes oil, coal, nuclear, wind or hydro power to create the energy electric cars are powered on, so even eco saints don't get off free. To complicate matters further, if you want a hydrogen-fuel-cell-powered vehicle, like a Honda FCX Clarity, you will need to measure mileage in m.p.k., or miles per kilograms of hydrogen. The Clarity gets roughly 60 m.p.k...
...Eggert is in charge of science and technology policy for the state agency, which sets greenhouse-gas performance standards (GHGP) and develops "miles per gasoline gallon equivalents" (MPGGE) for electric and hydrogen-fuel-cell vehicles so it can rate the amount of harmful CO2 released into the air. It's all very confusing and is likely to get even worse, according to Eggert, who doesn't "even bother" with GM's 230-m.p.g. claim. "We ignore such claims entirely," he says. "We look at total energy consumed so we can figure out how much greenhouse gas is being emitted into...
Drug gangs also peddle their narcotics to the bored and frustrated inmates, many of whom were already addicted on the outside. Convicted car thief Jair Lopez says crack cocaine is easily available in the Eastern Prison helping him fuel his addiction. "It is tough in here any way. But when you're walking round high on drugs it just gets you in more trouble," Lopez says, resting in a sun scorched prison yard after doing chin ups on a rusty metal...
...would come, not just because he was fellow military person, but because we know that men of the military are clear and say their opinion because the nature of their work is very dangerous since you are dealing with the lives of people. When you manage a war, the fuel of wars is people, be it from your side or your enemy's side. So you are dealing with a very dangerous issue and tend to be more objective than anyone else. General Gration did not disappoint us. He was very objective, courageous, and gave his opinion based on what...