ZipCar?

Cheap. Environmentally sound. Could the North Country support a service that rents cars by the hour like this one? Or CarShare? Or Montreal's unfortunately named CommunAuto?
With all the downstate ollege students in Plattsburgh, and Amtrak and bus links to NYC and Montreal, and the number of great day trips around here, well ... I don't know. Amherst, Mass., (pop 35,000) supports ZipCar. The city and town of Plattsburgh have about 30,000 people. Anyways, I wrote to ask about ZipCar, and got this reply:

Dear Luke,

Thank you for your interest in Zipcar. If you feel that your area is ready for Zipcar, please have your friends and neighbors enter their information at www.zipcar.com/notify-me. We compile this information and use it to decide where to place out next fleet. If we need further information we will contact you directly.

Regards,
Zipcar Member Services

So feel free to notify them here.