City considers adding electric vehicles, charging stations / Lawrence, Kansas

City commissioners at their meeting this evening are being asked to apply for up to $250,000 in federal stimulus funds that would create new “fueling stations” for electric-hybrid cars, and also allow the city and county to add four new electric vehicles to their fleet.

“We have an opportunity to create a lot of awareness about electric cars,” said City Commissioner Aron Cromwell. “I think we’re going to start seeing a lot more of them.”
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Just how feasible electric cars are, though, is something Lawrence leaders hope to find out. The grant proposal includes a plan for Kansas University researchers to study how electric vehicles perform in city and county fleets.

As part of the grant, the city and county each would purchase a Ford Escape hybrid vehicle and convert it so it runs entirely using electricity. The city also is proposing to purchase two specially equipped trash trucks that use electricity instead of diesel to run much of the trucks’ hydraulics.

Could Climate Change Get Us Killed? : CleanTechnica

It is only a matter of time before someone gets angry enough about devastating climate change to take up arms – or even nukes.

Perhaps then the obstructionist, selfish and stupid Senators of the 2010 congress (39 Republicans and 3 Democrats) that have disabled a safe climate policy, will be held responsible.

Hot on the trail: NASA helps fund professor's study of heat waves | The Indianapolis Star

"Heat is the number one weather-related killer in North America," Johnson said. "It outstrips usually in any year hurricanes, tornadoes, lightning and flash floods. There are more deaths from heat each year in North America than all those other things combined."

Impacts of Temperature Extremes

The average number of deaths attributed to cold is 770 yearly, substantially higher [double] than the number attributed to heat (Kilbourne, 1997).