Gottfried Green

It took me a while but I received on netflix both Who Killed the Electric Car and An Inconvenient Truth. Who Killed the Electric Car, I believe you can find for free online. In need of new wheels for a while now, I've been waiting to buy anything until I caught up with the current technology. This film helped set me straight. Basically GM had a somewhat popular electric car introduced in CA in the 90's but decided it wouldn't be as profitable over the life of the car as gas powered so they destroyed the few they had out there much to the disappointment of happy customers. It's a control thing on the part of automakers. Meanwhile currently the gov. and the auto industry embrace hydrogen as the future although it will be 15 years off and still expensive for consumers. The bottom line is that hydrogen represents their attempt to have the word alternative used in ad campaigns without a true desire to ever create the car. Gas is just too good for the whole crue- feds, car makers and oil companies. The irony is that while they've been guarding their pocketbooks assuming they can control consumer education, Toyota's hybrid sales have been growing, among others, and they are slowly losing consumers. You can look at Detroit now and see how American automakers are fading into American history. Oh, America....!

Labels: Energy, global warming