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Bring It, Portland

April 9, 2009 on 2:53 pm | In Sustainability | No Comments

A few days ago we reported that San Francisco Mayor, Gavin Newsom, proclaimed that the San Francisco Bay Area was on the road to becoming the electric car capital of the world.  Portland’s Mayor, Sam Adams, didn’t take kindly to this and threw down the gauntlet:

“Working with the Governor’s office, Portland General Electric, and others, we will be announcing the most aggressive in-garage and on-street wired up charging station strategy that I think any city in the United States has sought to achieve. And that even means you Gavin Newsom, who’s trying hard to make the Bay Area the EV capital of the world. Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh. That’s gonna be Portland.”

Mayor Newsom’s Communication Director, Nathan Ballard, responded, “We welcome the healthy competition. The more the merrier.”
You can read more about this smackdown, here.