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  1. Electric Vehicles (Dmoz)
      Provides dozens of sources of information on electric vehicles. 1-02

  2. Tax Incentives for Clean-Fuel Vehicles (FuelEconomy.gov)
      "Qualifying electric vehicles and clean-fuel vehicles (including gasoline/electric hybrids) purchased new are eligible for federal income tax incentives." 4-03

  3. Hybrid Vehicles

  4. Electric Vehicles Innovation (EcoTrekker.com)
      Describes new alternative vehicles as they become available or during research. 9-04

  5. -Biodiesel Fuel for Vehicles (Wikipedia.org)
      Discusses the strengths and weaknesses of biodiesel fuels as a replacement for gasoline or diesel engines.

      "Biodiesel is non-flammable, and in contrast to petroleum diesel it is non-explosive, with a flash point of 150 °C for biodiesel as compared to 64 °C for petrodiesel. Unlike petrodiesel, it is biodegradable and non-toxic, and it significantly reduces toxic and other emissions when burned as a fuel."

      "Biodiesel reduces emissions of carbon monoxide (CO) by approximately 50% and carbon dioxide by 78.45% on a net basis because the carbon in biodiesel emissions is recycled from carbon that was already in the atmosphere, rather than being new carbon from petroleum that was sequestered in the earth's crust."

      "Biodiesel does produce more NOx emissions than petrodiesel, but these emissions can be reduced through the use of catalytic converters. Petrodiesel vehicles have generally not included catalytic converters because the sulfur content in that fuel destroys the devices, but biodiesel does not contain sulfur."

      "It is one of the most realistic candidates to replace fossil fuels as the world's primary transportation energy source, because it is a renewable fuel that can replace petrodiesel in current engines and can be transported and sold using today's infrastructure."

      "Current worldwide production of vegetable oil and animal fat is not enough to replace liquid fossil fuel use. Some environmental groups, notably NRDC object to the vast amount of farming and the resulting over-fertilization, pesticide use, and land use conversion that would be needed to produce the additional vegetable oil."

      "The estimated transportation fuel and home heating oil use in the United States is about 230,000 million gallons. (Briggs, 2004) Waste vegetable oil and animal fats would not be enough to meet this demand. In the United States, estimated production of vegetable oil for all uses is about 33,000 million pounds (15,000,000 t) or 4,500 million US gallons." Although soybean oil is most commonly used for biodiesel in the U.S., algae may supply 200 times more oil per acre, according to the article. 10-05

  6. -01-20-06 Pollution Worse in Vehicles than for Pedestrians (Scientific American)
      " 'Walking is not just good for you from an exercise point of view but also from an exposure point of view," Kaur notes. "Sometimes people have the impression that the vehicle should provide some protection and that's not always the case.' " 01-06

  7. Ethanol (E85) Vehicles (E85Fuel.com - National Ethanol Vehicle Coalition)
      Provides a list of vehicles, mostly pickups and other large vehicles with relatively poor MPG. Ford Taurus was available as a Flexible Fuel Vehicle (FFV) in earlier models but only carries a fleet model for 2006. 05-06

  8. Electric Gizmo Vehicles (Nevco-Ev.com)
      Provides a three-wheeled electric vehicle. (Discontinued in 2003.) 6-01

  9. Hybrid Vehicles MPG Comparison (HybridCars.com)
      Compares the MPG for existing hybrid vehicles. 12-06

  10. The Battery Challenge for Energy-Efficient Vehicles (Christian Science Monitor)
      "Can you imagine this scenario: An American automaker leapfrogs its Japanese competitors with a gasoline-electric hybrid that gets 150 miles to the gallon and can travel 40 miles on battery power alone?"

      "General Motors set out that possibility when it unveiled on Sunday the Chevy Volt, a concept car with a much larger electric motor than today's Toyota Prius." 01-07

  11. Diesel Vehicles

  12. Alternative Fuel Vehicles (CNN News)
      Provides 10 choices. 08-07

  13. -12-09-08 Study: Request for Life-Saving Vehicles Bungled (CBS News)
      "The Marine Corps left troops in Iraq vulnerable to deadly roadside bombs by failing to answer an urgent request from battlefield commanders for blast-resistant vehicles, according to an internal Pentagon investigation obtained by The Associated Press."

      "Acquisition officials shelved the February 2005 request for the 'MRAPs' (pronounced EM-raps) after Marine leaders decided armored versions of the Humvee were the best answer to the improvised explosive devices that became the signature weapon of the Iraq war. However, the beefier Humvees proved incapable of withstanding the increasingly powerful IEDs."

      "MRAPs weigh as much as 40 tons and have a V-shaped hull that deflects the blast out and away from the crew. More than 11,000 of the vehicles have been sent to Iraq and Afghanistan since May 2007 after Defense Secretary Robert Gates declared MRAPs the Pentagon's No. 1 acquisition priority. The heavy trucks have been very effective at protecting American forces from IEDs." 12-08

  14. Hybrid Vehicles: 1997 - 2013 (HybridCenter.org)
      Highlights vehicles from 1997 - proposed vehicles of 2013. 04-10

  15. Which Pollutes More: Vehicles or Coal-Fired Power Plants? (UCSUSA.org)
      "With this in mind, a passenger car or truck today is typically responsible for around 7.4 tons of CO2 a year. If you compare that to a typical, existing 600 megawatt coal plant, producing 5.2 million tons of CO2 pollution a year, then, in one year, that plant is producing as much global warming pollution as around 700,000 cars."

  16. -04-01-11 Obama Administration Encourages Use of Energy-Efficient Fleet Vehicles (ABC News)
      "Goodbye to gas-guzzling fleet vehicles like the ubiquitous big brown UPS trucks? President Obama hopes so, saying it’s not only good for the environment, it’s good for business." 03-11

  17. Autos - Electric Autos by Availability (All-Electric-Vehicles)
      "Please note that I have only included cars that have a speed in excess of 60km/h and fully-charged range of at least 60km. This may not seem like a lot, but it does get you out and about on public roads and some electric cars known as "neighbourhood vehicles" (or golf-carts) don't even come up to this." 08-11

  18. Tesla and Other Electric Vehicles Review (Wall Street Journal)
      "Dan Neil drives the Tesla Model S, possibly the most technologically advanced all-electric car to date." 07-12

  19. Massachusetts Online Registry of Motor Vehicles
      Provides the RMV. 10-09

  20. Oregon DMV - Change of Address Form (Department of Motor Vehicles)
      Provides online form to change driver's license address.

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