With Gas at $4/Gallon Average, Plug In America Calls on Americans to Demand Electric
Cars

Electric Car Advocacy Group Urges Americans to Call the Auto Companies and Demand
Electrics

JUNE 9, 2008–As gas hits $4 a gallon nationwide, Plug In America (PIA) calls on
citizens from coast to coast to demand that automakers manufacture Electric Vehicles
(EV) so that they can dump the pump.

“Call Toyota, call GM, call Ford, call them all and tell them that you won’t buy
another car until it can be plugged in and charged with electricity,” said Linda
Nicholes, president of PIA, the organization leading the nation’s electric car
movement. “Americans must demand the choice to drive cars that run on cleaner,
cheaper, domestic electricity.”

In fact, Nicholes pays the equivalent of 83-cents per gallon of gas to drive her
zero-emission EV, in a comparison made with U.S. Dept. of Energy data. Furthermore,
because EVs have motors with scant moving parts instead of engines, the Anaheim, CA
resident has not once paid for parts, maintenance, a tune up or an oil change in
66,000 miles of driving. She has never had to hook her car up to the gas pump.

Some 20 auto companies are developing all-electric or plug-in hybrid electric cars.
Even where such cars are charged with electricity produced by older, dirtier coal
plants, they emit fewer greenhouse gasses than gasoline vehicles, according to a
2007 study by the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Electric Power Research
Institute.
Americans, however, must make
it abundantly clear that we want a more environmentally responsible form of
transportation and that that there will be a vast market for electric cars.
Thousands of EVs were crushed by Toyota, GM and other automakers in the early to
mid-2000s as portrayed in the documentary, “Who Killed the Electric Car?” And
consumers, the award-winning film concluded, were among those guilty of the crime.

Plug In America has published a list of major auto companies and appropriate phone
numbers on its website at http://www.pluginamerica.org/action.shtm and encourages
Americans to take action now.

“We must not let promises to produce EVs vaporize like the distant memory of
$2-per-gallon gas,” Nicholes said. “Taking this stand is also boldly patriotic
because the money we spend on electricity stays here at home. It strengthens our own
economy, not the cold blooded regimes of rogue terrorists abroad.”
Gasoline rose to a national average of $4 for the first time, motorist group AAA
reported Sunday. The price is far higher in many cities across the country.
Plug In America is a California-based nonprofit organization that advocates the use
plug-in cars, trucks and SUVs powered by cleaner, cheaper, domestic electricity to
reduce our nation’s dependence on petroleum and improve the global environment. For
more information: http://www.pluginamerica.org.