Who Killed the Electric Car?
Aug. 27th, 2006 01:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mahnmutWho Killed the Electric Car? is the title of a movie due to be released this summer, and you can investigate the answer - although I think we all have at least an idea of the guilty parties' identities - at the following website:
http://www.sonyclassics.com/whokilledth
It raises some issues that traditionally have been portrayed as insurmountable by the media - until now. Suddenly the electric car is looking better: it's fast, it's cheap to run, and if you drive around 29 miles a day, it will run for several days on one charge. What happened to slow, inconvenient, doesn't go far enough on a charge? That used to be the chant we heard, and now it's been reversed. I think we're being jerked around here. Don't get me wrong, we always were, but now the official story is changing, and I want to know whose pocket is going to be lined by what we're being told now. Big oil has been the beneficiary of how things have been. Who is going to get rich NOW? Or richer?
http://www.sonyclassics.com/whokilledth
It raises some issues that traditionally have been portrayed as insurmountable by the media - until now. Suddenly the electric car is looking better: it's fast, it's cheap to run, and if you drive around 29 miles a day, it will run for several days on one charge. What happened to slow, inconvenient, doesn't go far enough on a charge? That used to be the chant we heard, and now it's been reversed. I think we're being jerked around here. Don't get me wrong, we always were, but now the official story is changing, and I want to know whose pocket is going to be lined by what we're being told now. Big oil has been the beneficiary of how things have been. Who is going to get rich NOW? Or richer?
