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When I was a kid, we drove cars that ran on gasoline, I shit you not.
Finally, someone has figured out a way to put electric cars on the road fast, and en masse. From an article in Wired Magazine, this guy, Agassi, (no relation to the tennis player, I presume) is setting the whole system up in Israel right now in cahoots with automaker, Renault. The company's called Better Place, and its idea is based on the cellphone business model where you subsidize the cost of the car, and then charge people only for the cost of the electricity they use (kinda like buying "minutes"). Now, I'm not a huge fan of the cell-phone industry, but if this is what it takes to get this country off oil, then sign me up—probably with a lifetime contract involving firstborns.
