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To: Tadsamillionaire who wrote (17)	9/5/2006 2:34:05 PM
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Plug-in hybrids get big push from Calif. utility 5.1 million customers urged to lobby automakers to build them This Toyota Prius was converted to allow it to be recharged from an electrical outlet. The automaker doesn't authorize such conversions, but plug-in advocates have gone ahead with this and a few other conversions to show what's possible. msnbc.msn.com California's largest utility, Pacific Gas & Electric Co., is asking its 5.1 million customers to petition automakers to speed up development of plug-in electric-gasoline hybrid vehicles. Along with their power and gas bills for September, PG&E customers are getting a request to lobby the automakers. PG&E and its parent, PG&E Corp., have joined with an Austin, Texas-based organization called "Plug-In Partners" that has set up an Internet petition drive to pressure U.S. and foreign automakers to make cars that can charge up by plugging in to a regular 120-volt household outlet.