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Saturday, March 5th, 2011
Obviously, one of the top reasons for purchasing and driving an electric car is to save money on gasoline. However, some have pointed out that because drivers of electric vehicles do not purchase gasoline, they also avoid the gasoline tax that goes toward covering the state’s road construction and maintenance.
In Oregon, the state’s Road User Fee Task Force recommended a piece of tax legislation to force electric car owners to pay the road maintenance and construction taxes. Just recently, House Bill 2328 was put before the Oregon Legislature. This bill suggests that electric car owners pay a vehicle usage charge, starting with both fully electric and gas-electric hybrids in the model year 2014.
While there are many who will hear this idea and immediately frown on it, it turns out that the taxes suggested in House Bill 2328 are pretty reasonable and, thankfully, still equate to a huge savings in tax over driving a gasoline powered car and simply paying the tax at the pump. In fact, the bill suggests just a 0.6 cent per mile fee. At that rate, 10,000 miles of driving would only cost you $60 worth of “vehicle usage charges.”
One of the most questioned factors of taxing electric vehicles by the mile is how exactly to track the mileage. It is very possible to develop a system that tracks your mileage and location using GPS technology, but unsurprisingly, most citizens are not very comfortable with the government tracking where they go. The next thought that comes to mind is tracking mileage manually, perhaps once a year. However, this method would leave it to the driver to simply record their out of state mileage, and it would be very hard to regulate.
Who knows what the fate of House Bill 2328 will be? Even if the bill doesn’t pass, it has brought the issue to light and eventually there will be provisions in place for taxing electric car owners. The amount of electric and hybrid vehicles on the road today is only growing, and government needs to adapt quickly.
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Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
by Matthew Loop, DC
Despite the upcoming election, it is incredibly unlikely that any changes will be made to big oil’s hold on Washington. There are simply far too many people under the influence of these influential businessmen for any real change to occur, no matter who or what party is in charge of regulating these businesses. Luckily, there is actually a way right now to combat high gas prices by using a fuel system designed to reduce emissions, improve the environment and triple your gas mileage, all for less than the cost of filling up a gas tank.
Most people do not believe that you can run your car on water, and that is because the gas companies have done an amazing job and preventing news organizations from receiving information on the topic. But HHO gas (Named because of H2O, 2 Hydrogen, 1 Oxygen) is real and the technology is already available today. In just a few hours and with absolutely no knowledge of auto mechanics, you can convert your car into a hybrid that runs on water.
1) How Can Water Run a Car?
There is a system that you can create that hooks up to your car battery. It takes everyday tap water and removes a piece of hydrogen from its chemical makeup, carries it to the engine where it is burned and used, and then sent back into the air where it touches oxygen and becomes water again. By simply adding water to a piece of technology that you have added to your engine, you can triple your gas mileage and reduce your car’s impact on the environment.
2) Why Should You Consider Running Your Vehicle with Water?
With high gas prices as they are, any money you can save is beneficial. But with water power in your car, you can triple your gas mileage allowing you to save thousands of dollars every year, all for the cost of only a few pieces of equipment. In addition, with global warming on the horizon, reducing your own car’s carbon imprint is the first ste towards making the country and the world a better place for our children.
3) Where Do You Buy the Systems?
The manufacturing of these systems has been relatively underground, because if they start becoming too mainstream they are likely going to be squashed by big oil and corporate America. Instead, these systems are sold as how-to guides on the internet, teaching you how to build it yourself with detailed, step by step instructions designed to ensure that you do it right the first time with the few materials your need to make it correctly.
In my opinion, everyone should make the conscious decision to adopt this technological breakthrough to run their cars and trucks on water. The obvious reason for this is that it is very friendly for the environment. We have all taken the earth for granted for far too long and now we have an energy crisis on our hands! Water fuel hybrid systems do not contribute to the global warming epidemic nearly as much as conventional gas-powered automobiles do.
High gas prices are unlikely to be regulated any time soon. So if you are hoping for some form of relief, either at the gas tank or for the environment, you may want to consider turning your car into a car that runs on water. Creating a water car hybrid is the only way to truly change our dependence on foreign oil, and our footprint on the environment.
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Sunday, June 7th, 2009
by Brendan Sommers
When I first heard about a way to run your car using nothing but the standard water/H2O you find in your tap, needless to say I was incredibly skeptical. With high gas prices the way they are these days, this seemed like the kind of information I would have heard on the news, because it appeared to be a way to run your can on water using nothing but a small engine addition that you build yourself. It took me a while to realize that one of the reasons I had never heard about this before was because the oil companies and the government have done whatever they could to keep this thing silenced.
This technology uses parts available at almost any hardware or automotive shop. Using detail instructions found in the many guides, you can use your car or truck’s battery and create a hydrogen powered hybrid that will use HHO gas to save you thousands of dollars in high gas prices as well as help clean up the environment.
This system is known as HHO gas, and it uses a converter to discharge hydrogen directly from standard water and use it for fuel. Essentially, your car’s power is coming from both gas and water, making it a makeshift hybrid car. The technology is so simply that people rarely sell the equipment - instead, they tend to simply sell guides, as these guides are good enough to allow any individual to create it themselves rather than be forced to pay the huge markup costs.
1) How safe is the water hybrid conversion process? Very safe, as proven consistently by the auto experts. To put it in perspective, you’d have a much better chance of injuring yourself pumping gasoline than getting hurt while performing this easy conversion! Safety is first and foremost so follow the directions exactly as they appear in the manual. Do not keep a flame near the work area, as hydrogen will definitely burn the daylights out of you if ignited!
When you make the decision to power your car on water, it makes it slightly safer (contrary to what many of us have been told). This is because the mixture of fuel will contain less combustible gas than before the water fuel transformation. If you’re concerned about your engine, don’t be! This specific conversion has been shown to be very safe for it. When you use HHO gas in conjunction, it proliferates a much cooler burn, which causes a great deal less wear on your vehicle over the long haul. This, in turn, will allow you keep more money in the bank so you don’t ever have to worry about the price at the pump. This emotional freedom alone is priceless!
Does Technology Work With All Car Types? HHO technology not only works with cars. It works with trucks, scooters - even lawn mowers. With the exception of electric hybrids (only because they have not been tested yet) the systems can be guaranteed to run any vehicle more fuel efficiency when that vehicle depends on gasoline to work properly. SUV’s, campers - no matter what type of gas mileage they got previously or what kind of car they are, they can all free themselves of high gas prices using an HHO system.
Considering that no analyst can see gas prices decreasing at any point in the near future, these manuals about how to convert your car to run on water may be your only chance at saving money on gasoline over the next several years. And considering the cost of the manual and all the parts used to create it can actually be less than the cost of filling up your gas tank, you should consider purchasing one of them quickly, as they will pay for themselves in a matter of weeks.
To wrap up, it is indeed possible to run your car on water and the conversion is relatively simple and cheap. Do not be misled or programmed by the mainstream media when they tell you that oil is the only viable solution. This cutting-edge, home-made hybrid approach is only the beginning of what is to come in revolutionary clean fuel breakthroughs!
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