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Where can I buy an electric car or plug-in hybrid car?

Gas prices are really too high and I think we can't keep using oil to power our cars. Where can I find an electric car or at least a plug-in hybrid car?

Public Comments

1. In all honesty, you can't. Sure there are a given few electric car companies making golf carts that have windows and can go 55, but the only company making a car worth a crap is Tesla Motors (teslamotors.com) it's an amazing car and is what we should see on the larger market but it starts at 100k. I give them credit though for at least selling it, Chevy will wave the Volt in front of us for years but I'd bet even money it'll never make it to production. Your best bet is to buy a Prius and have it modified after market. There are companies in place to do this sort of thing, but you may be driving to San Francisco to get it done. Personally I drive a 2006 Jetta TDI (Diesel) it gets better gas mileage than my parents Prius, and it only cost 2k to modify it to run on Vegetable Oil (compared to 10k to modify the prius), so I'm seeing 40-45 MPG on a grow-able fuel. Which is at least carbon neutral. (you have to grow something that breaths CO2 and releases Oxygen). I know it isn't great but honestly I feel better about my car on Bio Diesel because at least I don't depend on foreign oil, so I make the treehunger happen, the peace love people happy, and my wallet happy, Vegetable Oil is only $1.50 per gallon.