“Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.” (President Obama) The Obama-Biden New Energy for America Plan aimed to put 1 million Plug-in Hybrid cars on America’s roads by 2015. In California today there are approximately 10,000 of these energy-efficient environmentally friendly vehicles traveling the tarmac, but on January 27 the California Air Resources Board once again put the state in the number one position in the nation in the fight for a clean environment. A 9-0 vote firmly instated a set of “clean car” rules, expected to see 1.4 million zero- and low-emission vehicles in California’s auto showrooms within 12 years. The enactment [...]