Oregon Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 04 Mar 2013 20:15:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Oregon Considering Per-Mile Tax on Fuel Efficient and Electric Vehicles https://www.greenoptimistic.com/oregon-per-mile-tax-vehicles-20130304/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/oregon-per-mile-tax-vehicles-20130304/#comments Mon, 04 Mar 2013 20:15:04 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=34396 The current Oregon bill is considering a 1.5¢/mile tax on vehicles getting over 55mpg, meaning an driver of an electric vehicle would have to pay an additional $225 if he drove 15,000 miles that year. Taxation is doing your fair share to support the state-run infrastructure in which you live, work, and play. It makes sense, but is it excessive? Depending on […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/oregon-per-mile-tax-vehicles-20130304/feed/ 1 34396 Newberry Volcano in Oregon to Become Geothermal Power Source https://www.greenoptimistic.com/newberry-volcano-in-oregon-to-become-geothermal-power-source-20121016/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/newberry-volcano-in-oregon-to-become-geothermal-power-source-20121016/#comments Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:28:42 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=26752 Nearly one million people could benefit from a new project in Oregon, where deep waters would be turned into steam by deep geothermal activity of dormant volcanoes and the turbines will be powered without producing greenhouse gases. Altarock, the company in charge of drilling, managed to get approval for the project by the U.S. Bureau […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/newberry-volcano-in-oregon-to-become-geothermal-power-source-20121016/feed/ 2 26752 New Oregon Based Electric Three-Wheeler Getting 190 MPG https://www.greenoptimistic.com/arcimoto-of-eugene-pulse-electric-car-20090924/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/arcimoto-of-eugene-pulse-electric-car-20090924/#respond Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:11:19 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=4499 An Oregon-based company, Arcimoto of Eugene, designed their fully electric vehicle capable of reaching no less than 190 mpg, if we take mpg as an energy reference.

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