--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The new documentary film WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR is quite excellent, but > hardly surprising. If you need a good dose of intellectual tree hugging, then > this is the film for you. Not surprisingly, the Bush administration (or the > oil oligarchy as they known) in collusion with big oil companies and American > car manufacturers,
The last time this nonsense about the car manufacturers and the oil companies being in collusion came out -- in the '70s -- it was said that they were conspiring to make cars that unnecessarily consumed alot of gasoline so that the oil companies could make more money. Well, what a grand conspiracy that must have been! It almost ended up bankrupting the U.S. car manufacturers because, come the oil crisis of the '70s, the smaller more efficient Japanese car manufacturers almost took over the business. I haven't seen this movie so I can't really comment on it but I suspect that there are reasons other than conspiracy for why the electric car was "killed". > were the culprits. This is typical, given the > anti-environmental history of the Republican Party. If you've followed environmental issues > over the last several decades, and the film makes this point, the Republicans > have always tried to destroy environmentally friendly policies. "always"? The EPA was created under the Nixon Administration for God's sakes! This was made > crystal clear to me when conservative darling Ronald Reagan became president. > He defeated Jimmy Carter, a president with a strong environmental policy. The > first thing Reagan did when he took office was to remove the solar panels from > the White House because they were "undignified." Well, that's funny because when I first moved to the Phoenix, Arizona area -- also in '94 there were quite a few homes in my neighbourhood with solar panels. Well, the price of energy has gone up quite a bit since then and virtually every single panel has disappeared! I don't see them in Phoenix anywhere anymore. Was that a conspiracy, too? > This film does go a bit into > this history, but anyone who has belonged to environmental organizations-- > whose job is to monitor political decision making-- knew this all along. Still, > it is impressive that documentaries are now being made that explain this before > Bush even gets out of power. You too will mourn the passing of the electric > car-- a technology that was ready and raring to go and already in the hands of > consumers, but was literally crushed by Bush's oil oligarchy. -==- =-=- > om----=== Nick > If there is a market for electric cars, I can assure you that the car manufacturers will be the first ones through the door eager and willing to sell them to you. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
