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Well, it would be a nice start.

Electric vehicles (or at least the technology behind them) have been around for about three decades, but they've constantly been held back because either prominent people in the industry enjoyed our dependence on oil or felt that they weren't "efficient" enough.

Well, as gas prices start rapidly approaching $4.00 a gallon people are starting to realize that we need alternatives and we need them NOW! Do you want some good reasons to use electric cars? Okay, I've got a few:

1. Foreign Oil. Contrary to what many doomsayers are spouting, the Earth is not running out of oil any time soon. Many of the major oil producing nations (Saudi Arabia, Iraq, the United States) haven't even tapped 10% of their available oil deposits, but that doesn't mean that they won't run out some day. A lot of people watch the news and get annoyed how we're fighting in a country that just happens to have the third highest amount of oil lying around (even though, Iraq is ranked 14th in oil production, they still have lots of oil that hasn't even been touched yet). If we didn't have to care about that oil, we probably wouldn't have to care about the country. Plus, it would be nice to give a black eye to all of those OPEC nations that enjoy pushing us around.

2. The Environment. El Nino, La Nina, Global Warming - call it what you want. All of those cars burning millions of gallons of gas every day is releasing tons of gases into the air that are tearing apart the ozone layer. The weather has been going a little crazy over the past decade or so and many experts say that gas-guzzlers are partially to blame. If you take them out of the picture we might see an improvement - and if we don't see an improvement, we can tell those self-righteous fools that they were wrong. Everybody wins.

3. Noise. Ever been lying in your bed and all of a sudden some idiot comes barreling down the street in some muscle car that has an engine that exceeds the threshold of pain in noise - just because they're trying to impress their friends. Personally, I could do without that,.

Unfortunately, with every good thing there has to be some bad things and these are some of the prominent roadblocks that electric cars have been facing since they were first conceptualized:

1. Low mileage. Unfortunately, electric cars can't go that far on a full charge. People don't like the idea of filling up their cars at the pump, so it's safe to assume that they're not going to enjoy

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