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High Gas Prices Driving People to Golf Carts?
The Wall Street Journal has an article that says you know gas prices are high when Texans start driving golf carts. The vehicles the WJS is talking about do look like golf carts but they are actually small electric powered vehicles. A company named ZAP makes electric vehicles but there are many others that have been around for a while but were primarily used by businesses. Many streets do not allow these slow, small golf-cart-sized vehicles.
"It makes so much sense for getting around. We go everywhere in it," says Mrs. Peters, 41.
It's a sure sign electric cars have a future when they're catching on in Texas. Others here, too, are abandoning the family car and driving to the office in what appear to be fancy little golf carts. Small battery-powered vehicles have been on the market for years but have mainly been used by workers driving around factories and university campuses.
The small cars are powered by batteries charged by plugging them into regular 110-volt house current. Though they do look like golf carts, they have heftier frames and more powerful engines. Now, with high gasoline prices driving booming sales, many are going to ordinary folks like the Peterses, who have fallen in love with gasoline-free transportation.
Here's a video from the WSJ that shows people driving around in the vehicles that resemble golf carts.
Posted on July 30, 2008
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