Google's philanthropy organization Google.org is investing in an electric car company Aptera Motors. The significance of this will remain to be seen, but for now it's nice to see a light on in the electric car office. The Aptera is about $30,000 in the US and will be available by 2009 the company says, but how easy will it be to by one? The kewl thing about the whole approach Google.org is taking is these cars which can be charged in a few hours by solar panels, could be used to store electricity that is then sold back to the power company. So let's get that straight, right now we are all going broke trying to maintain our consumerism, but we could have technology that sees me making money with out even driving my car? And we choose to spend all our money on band aid solutions when we should be looking to change the game completely? Well we are keeping an eye on Aptera and Google.org to see what they think of next. Though I am a self professed gear head, and I love to put the pedal down, but the current gas prices have me competing with myself to see how good I can drive to get the most distance out of my tank. Not that it's entirely a bad thing, but I want to go back to being able to enjoy driving, and not wondering what harm I am actually causing. There is little question about how to solve this "Energy Crisis" and I will remember 2008 as the year I changed my views on being active in providing as much help to the solution as I can.