Darrell Dickey drives an electric car that's charged by photovoltaic panels
on the roof of his house. "Now," he
says, "I
can deflect the comments that my 'electric' car is just a 'coal-burning'
car." He's one of three drivers we talked to about how exactly they got into
owning cars that are charged by wind or solar power. As Dickey puts it, "For
$45,000 we got a car and fuel for the rest of our lives." Read
their stories.
The Lexington Herald Leader has a story posted today about the amount of tax money the coal industry gets in Kentucky each year to promote itself: $400,000.
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