[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 20]
[House]
[Page 28577]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             THE DRIVE ACT

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Madam Speaker, last week the Capitol hosted a display 
of electric cars, hybrids like the Toyota Prius and various 
generations.
  And there was one car that got my attention. It was an Auto-Cycle. It 
was a one-man car. It would go 75 miles an hour. And the owner of it 
did not drive it in from Ohio where it was made, but he said he could 
have. It goes 75 miles an hour. And if you have a car like that in 
town, you basically plug it in every day and you run all day long, and 
you don't use one ounce of gas.
  I am a cosponsor of something called the DRIVE Act. It is a 
bipartisan bill cosponsored by me and Eliot Engel of New York. The idea 
behind it is to get off Middle East oil by increasing the incentive to 
buy hybrid cars, flex-fuel vehicles, electric vehicles, biodiesels, 
cars that run on ethanol, and a number of other alternative-fuel 
vehicles. We have the technology that's out there.
  We are doubling, in the DRIVE Act, the tax credit for buying hybrids 
in such cars. I believe that this is a step in the right direction, and 
I urge my colleagues to cosponsor the DRIVE Act.

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