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To: Dan3 who wrote (169474)	12/6/2008 12:15:53 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

Hmm its about .1 kilowatt-hours per mile for a small EV and .2 killowat-hours per mile for a RAV4 which is about 340-600 Btu for an electric vehicle. A gallon of gas is equivalent to 124,290 Btu--so a 25-mpg car uses 4,970 Btu per mile. I know what you are saying though, if you look at all inclusive energy usage and whether that utility uses coal it becomes much more grey. Still, even if you toss the whole cleanfuels thing out the window, the fact that EVs use electric power including coal which is abundant in the USA, it allows the US economy to keep the 200-800 billion we spend on oil from the middle east today, so its a win for a number of reasons. I was unaware of the corruption in Hawaii, too bad