For example, even the tax zombies don't dream that we stick it to the big oil companies by charging gas taxes.

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Mr Hopkins has also suggested the introduction of an arrangement for charging electric, gas and water companies to work on stretches of road.

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That means cheaper prices, longer range, and a charging experience equivalent to getting gas from the SaveMart.

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They would test the card by charging a small amount at a gas station.

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But there are at least two major obstacles hindering wider adoption of plug-in electric vehicles: the premium that drivers will have to pay for an electric car compared with a gas-powered vehicle and the limited number of electric car charging stations nationwide.

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The need to build pipelines from gas fields to utilities and the requirement to build networks of charging stations on highways and in major cities will require a whole new massive infrastructure effort, which in turn will need the services of construction workers, engineers and other assorted building folk.

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As environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg notes, manufacturing and charging electric cars over their life cycle can produce more carbon than small, gas-powered vehicles.

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