Starve a terrorist… Drive an Electric Car!

(No gas, no oil, no noise, no emissions… NO KIDDING!) Submitted by Dale Brooks, President, Houston Electric Auto Association

With a conversion kit installed into his Toyota Prius, Jerry Asher reasoned that folks should see and believe in Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) as a solution to our Nation’s Energy Crisis.  After driving that same hybrid car from Austin to California as a “PHEV All-Around America: Southwest Pilot Program”,  EVJerry was convinced! His basic thought: “Let’s create a team and put a PHEV on the road and drive all around the Country to demonstrate what Electrics are all about. Thus, the PHEV3A or Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle “All Around America EVducational Tour” began!

Asher, who is the Education Chairman of the Electric Vehicle Association of Washington D.C.  (EVADC) went before the Membership and proposed the PHEV3A idea! President Dave “Goldie” Goldstein and Vice President Charlie Garlow immediately backed Asher’s idea. In short order, other members joined in along with support coming from sister Electric Auto Association Chapters. “Part of our mission is to educate people about Pollution-Free Plug-In Electric Vehicles and do it on a National Scale,” said PHEV3 co-chair Joe Lado.

Asher’s Prius was christened the “Spirit of D.C.” joining a list of the club’s Pure Electric Vehicles and Hybrid EVs.  The launch of the Tour began at the Environmental Protection Agency’s 4th National Sustainable Design Expo held on the National Mall in front of Our Nation’s Capitol building.

The better part of a year has been spent in in visiting all 48 contiguous State Capitols of the U.S. On 18 April 2009, “EV Jerry” and the “Spirit of DC” will end their journey where it began, in Washington, D.C. being the first PHEV to travel all around America!

This Saturday, 14 March 2009, both will swing through Houston for two days. Visit www.heaa.org for late-breaking locations and appearances.

Note: The EPA 5th National Sustainable Design Expo will have over 60 college and university teams competing for the prestigious P3 Award on sustainable design and further funding to make their sustainable design fully implemented. Together with the P3 teams, there are over 30 non-profit and government exhibitors along with EVADC, who are also demonstrating their sustainable designs for alternative energy sources, agricultural applications, green chemistry, green buildings, sustainable water use, and many other sustainable technologies.

Join us and see history in-the-making with the heroic last leg of the “Spirit of DC” EVducational Tour, an “ALL AMERICAN” having visited all 48 State Capitols in America.  Check out “Spirit” & EVJerry at www.SpiritofDC.com

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