Low Gasoline Prices Slow Electric Car Sales to Below Administration Goals

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By Yale Environment 360Jan 22, 2016, 12:13 pm313 pts
The low price of gasoline is delaying the Obama Administration’s stated goal of reaching one million electric vehicles on American Cheap gas is hurting electric car sales roads by now, U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said. In the summer of 2008, with gas prices hovering around $4 a gallon, Obama, then a…

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