This is what reader Gregory has to say:

Right on!

I ride the subways of Manhattan all week, then on Friday nights take the train to central Jersey to my parents place.

Hop into my turbo S2000 (what’s a catalytic converter?) and make up for my lack of pollution all weekend long.

As long as we burn gasoline, we might as well burn it for fun, don’t you think?

The highly didactic photo you see above was taken at the Melancthon I wind plant in Ontario, where 45 1.5-megawatt General Electric turbines crank out an estimated 177,000 megawatt-hours of energy a year. Plenty of power for the subways!

Photo Credit: kevbo1983/Flickr

Pacific Gas & Electric, California's largest utility, is working on a plan to add around 4,600 megawatts of wind power as part of a larger scheme to incentivize electric car ownership in the Golden State. Using smart meters, the cars would charge during off-peak hours and the batteries would be used as storage units for the company to draw from during peak demand periods, with the cars' owners receiving credits on their bills for the juice drawn out. – Davey G. Johnson

Utility eyes power grid to boost electric cars [MSNBC]

Related:
Steve Lapp's Photovoltaic Prius Project [Internal]