Man donates $30K in retirement savings to speak to Obama about EVs; gets bumped off guest list

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9. He probably shouldn't have promoted it till after he met with Obama

Paul Scott is one of my Facebook friends. He's like the poster child for electric vehicles. He's been active in the Electric Auto Association for years and started up Plug-in America which is an offshoot of the EAA.

He announced on his Facebook page what he was planning to do and we all encouraged him and were messaging back and forth about what he was planning to say to Obama. Paul wanted to tie in both solar energy and electric cars since they both go together. Paul has solar panels on his house to help charge his leaf. Alot of EV owners are going in that direction. That way people won't say, "You get your electricity from coal to charge your car."

In hindsight, I imagine he shouldn't have said anything about his plans. We wouldn't have been upset if he kept it secret. But it was an exciting thing and who wouldn't want to share that information about meeting the President. But he didn't know the DNC would pull the rug out from under him.

I'm a bit dissapointed this all fell through. But Obama did see our electric cars at the DC auto show last year and sat in a Volt and looked at one of our EV conversions. So he is into EVs.

Maybe Obama and Paul will meet up someday to discuss EVs and solar at another time.