Smoke and flames billow skyward from a burning gasoline tanker after a crash in Eastern Massachusetts in July 2008. The driver escaped with minor injuries. (Screen shot of a Wellesley, Mass. Police YouTube Video).

As a solar-charged driver you won't contribute to need for the wasteful and dangerous practice of transporting gasoline on highways around the world.

Instead, you'll just plug in and get the energy you need to drive your car right from your home's rooftop. Nothing could be simpler or more efficient.

This means -- if you own EVs only -- that you won't be at all responsible for the gasoline and oil tanker truck accidents that occur on roadways in the U.S. and around the world.

If you have one solar-charged EV and one gas car, preferably a plug-in hybrid electric car or a hybrid, you'll be able to say that you're reducing the amount of gasoline that has to be transported via tanker trunk to your local gas station.

In other words, you'll reduce your responsibility for the events that inspire news headlines like these:

• I-75 tanker truck accident causes explosion and collapse of Nine Mile Road (Michigan)
• Woman struck by tanker truck in Hartford dies
• Gas tanker accident closes 3 CV schools (Pennsylvania)
• Tanker truck vs. car accident shuts down W.Va. 10 in Logan County
• Tanker truck accident in Gonzales, California causes massive fuel spill
• 1 killed, 4 injured as gas tanker truck, freight train collide (North Carolina)
• Accident involving car, tanker truck temporarily snarls Middlebrook traffic (Tennessee)
• Tanker truck accident causes fuel spill (California)
• Collision involving gas tanker truck closes down 22nd Avenue (Florida)
• Fatality confirmed in massive I-5 tanker truck fire near Wilsonville (Oregon)
• ARCO tanker truck accident in Los Angeles kills veteran driver

Tanker trunk crashes are comparatively rare, with a typical year in the U.S. seeing somewhere between 200 and 300 crashes involving tanker trucks (this total includes all tanker trunks, not just those carrying gasoline, oil or diesel). Only about five to 10 percent of those end up flames.

But people do die every year in these crashes -- and an electric car world would dramatically reduce the number of these crashes. That's because everyone would fuel up by plugging in at home, thus eliminating the need for the inefficient and potentially dangerous transportation of gasoline by truck.

So, why not buy an electric car and plug it into solar and make the world a safer place for us all?

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