The ballad of the EV

You don't hear my engine rumble
As I pull up next to you
And even as I pull away
You still don't have a clue

You think you need a lot of noise
To make you go real fast
But I have news for you, my friend:
You're only wasting gas.

The key to starting fast, my friend,
Is having torque to spare,
And Torque is what I have in spades,
And I also spare the air.

I leave you in my mirror, friend,
As you watch me pull away.
Because my car's Electric,
You lose the race today.

I pay dimes instead of dollars
To leave you in the past.
I make no noise, I leave no smog,
And I use no oil or gas.

My car can last a lifetime
As there's little to wear out.
Some batteries and a motor
Are what it's all about.

Solar panels make my power,
Not some foreign country schmoe.
I don't send an army in
If my fuel is looking low.

Well, my friend, I'll leave you now:
I've another race to run.
I'll let you keep the lovely smog
Green in the setting sun.

I've got to show the ones who care
There's a better way to be,
That driving an electric car
Can keep us breathing free.

- Robert Stelling (mildly modified by Darell)

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(To the tune of “Travelin’ Through”—thankyew to Dolly Parton)

I stepped outside my house one day
Just on the way to buy
Another bag of groc-er-ies
From hunger not to die—

I re-al-ized to my chagrin
That, were we all to live,
It would not do to drive a car
Bad air is bad to give.

I’m just travelin’, travelin’, travelin’
Just travelin’ on

I told my boy ‘we need a car
That will not make folks sick’
He said ‘Okay, I know the one
And plus, it’s really slick!’

We got ourselves an EV1
Gen I and then Gen II
The years went by and now
They’re gone; RAV4 will have to do—

We’re just travelin’, travelin’, travelin’
Just travelin’ on

I called my local solar guy
Said ‘set me up today
I want clean e-lec-tri-ci-ty
My karmic debt to pay’

He said ‘you drive a Z-E-V
You’ve got some points with God
But add to that this fine array
I think God would applaud’

I’m just travelin’, travelin’, travelin’
Travelin’ on

So when I glide through streets & towns
I think how far I’ve come
I see how nice it is to drive
A car with just a ‘hum’

I’ve talked to folks with I-C-E’s
They wish that they were me
For, sad to say, it’s gosh-darn hard
To get PV EV

We’re just travelin, travelin’, travelin’
Travelin’ through

Ooo, ooo, ooo

- Claudine Jones

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