The governors of Washington, Oregon and California are working together to see if they can install alternative fuels stations at rest stops along I-5.  If implemented, the plan would allow green travelers will be able to recharge or exchange electric vehicle batteries, or obtain compressed natural gas, ethanol, hydrogen or biodiesel.  Jeff Doyle, the director of public-private partnerships at WADOT, says in an article at the Seattle Times, says, "We originally coined it the B.C.-to-Baja green highway.  The three states are trying to find out if we can all march forward together."

The proposal, which Washington is hoping to implement by this summer, is an attempt to move past the tricky chicken-or-egg issue of buying renewable fuel cars but not having good sources of fuel vs. establishing the fuel stations without having enough vehicles to make them profitable.