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Veloteq
has now entered our 9th Year of service to our customers and to the
community.
Veloteq In
The News
"I feel empowered," said
Sefni-Ra, a Montessori teacher who lives in the Montrose area. She's buying
the e-bike from a dealer on Westheimer. She will ride it three miles to work and
on errands and use her car only for long trips.
Her e-bike looks like a
scooter and is made by Houston-based Veloteq.
Hey, hey, they're on their way! Houston gas prices have risen way
past the
$3 threshold and about to break $4.
Electricity prices are dropping making a Veloteq ebike an even better buy.
Don't look at the pump price unless you have
health insurance.Oilcan
Harry is on the runup again.
Crude oil prices have increased $20 bbl over the last 30 days!!
Regardless of crises in North Africa and the Middle East analysts
predict that crude oil prices will increase to and hold at over U$100 per
barrel.
ACROSS THE U.S.
ACROSS CANADA
Click below to find the latest prices in your
area.
Massive Oil Deposit Could Increase US reserves
by 10x
(But there is a catch.)
Don't look South into the Gulf, look North to the high plains of North
Dakota.
America is sitting on top of a
super massive 200 billion barrel Oil Field that could
potentially make America Energy Independent and until now
has largely gone unnoticed. Thanks to new technology the
Bakken Formation in North Dakota could boost America’s Oil
reserves by an incredible 10 times, giving western economies
the trump card against OPEC’s short squeeze on oil supply
and making Iranian and Venezuelan threats of disrupted
supply irrelevant. Estimates of recoverable oil using modern
extraction techniques run as high as 500 billion
gallons.
One of the reasons plastic disposable water bottles have become the
arch-nemeses of environmentalists in recent years is that they are (like all
other plastics) made out of crude oil. All those plastic bottles, plastic
silverware, plastic toys, etc. use up a lot of oil.
Akinori Ito’s creation of a machine that turns raw plastic trash into a
derivation of crude oil.
Art Burns Takes to the Road for a Cross-Country Ride from
Toronto to Vancouver and Back
Art Burns has logged over 7000 kms on his Veloteq e-bike odyssey.
Click image for details.
This round is on BP folks! Have one more for
the road.
The lithium needed for the batteries that power
everything from our laptops to future electric cars may come more than ever
from South America's vast salt flats
Both scooter style and
bicycle style e-bikes are now legal for use on Ontario roadways. No License,
registration, or insurance is required. Riders must be 16 years of age and
must wear a helmet while operating an e-bike.
Veloteq
in the New York Times Sunday, May 6,
2007 A Two Wheeled Option (with a Battery) for Commuters
by Barry Rehfeld
New buildings get electric
bicycle plug-ins! VANCOUVER, BC - May 15, 2008
The Vancouver Electric Vehicle Association (VEVA) congratulates the City of
Vancouver for new by-laws passed this week that will encourage and enhance
electric bicycle ownership, and lead the way for other communities to do the
same.
What ever happened to Lee Iacocca's EV Global?
Was Lee a prophet but a few years ahead of his time? Not really. His first
e-bikes were shipped to dealers in 1999. By that time, 40,000 e-bikes of
domestic design had already been sold in China in 1998. They have since
become a staple form of personal transportation in China, numbering over 100
million in use. Has the time come now?
Click
HERE for an
analysis.
California Air Resources Board Bicycle Fact
Sheet (click above)
Bicycling is important to the health of Californians -- and not just to
those doing the cycling. Statewide, about seven tons per day of smog-forming
gases and almost a ton of inhalable particles are spared from the air we
breathe due to use of bicycles rather than motor vehicles.
People choosing to pedal rather than drive usually replace short automobile
trips that are disproportionately high in pollutant emissions.
Walking away from the gasoline war. The case for electric bicycles.
Green Energy News - Baltimore,MD,USA
Let drivers adapt to other safe ways of local transport that don't require
gasoline - bicycles, low speed electric vehicles, scooters.
