Pulling the plug: State says electric car is illegal
don't forget....it's all about the ENVIORMENT..
Owners’ effort to go green suffers blackout
By John P. Kelly
GateHouse News Service
Posted Jul 31, 2008 @ 12:32 PM
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HINGHAM — Greenhouse gases and melting polar ice caps were never pressing concerns for Hingham carpenter Ben Burnham. Still, Burnham found himself buying an electric-powered ZAP Xebra last month to do his small part for the environment.
The three-wheeled vehicle has become a neighborhood oddity, a futuristic looking pickup truck with no tailpipe and a row of batteries instead of a gas tank. Drivers point cell phone cameras at Burnham as he zips nonchalantly past $4.19-a-gallon gas pumps, albeit at a top speed of 40 mph.
But the state has put the brakes on Burnham’s electric escapade.
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http://www.tauntongazette.com/news/b...car-is-illegal
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself."
Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)