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I just watched WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR the other day. It has a little liberal garbage thrown in, but it is a good video and tells the story of how the EV1 was basically removed from the face of the earth.
I'm thinking the major oil companies paid GM to remove all memories of the EV1 because it would cost the oil companies billions every year if the EV1 caught on. GM could make tons of money if they created an updated version dubbed the EV2. They were probably paid hundreds of millions of dollars to vaporize the EV1. If someone ever comes up with an electric or solar vehicle that works good, it will likely be bought off by the oil companies for millions or billions.

Journalistic integrity has a price that I'm sure both big oil and the car makers are happy to pay. The little guy can't afford to run ads on the Super Bowl and the networks are far too profit conscious to do whats right. This movement will spread slowly by word of mouth and over the internet. Despite being accused of being leftist and of being tree huggers the concept of alternative fuels and energy conservation will continue to grow. We as a society have to accept that most politicians once elected are bought and paid for. We need to realise that we need a third partty. Ralph Nader and Ron Paul are right.

I saw a car on on of the cable shows; a 1963 Chrysler Turbine. They only made about 100 of them. That was a promising technology at the time. It could burn just about anything. The big problem was the exhaust heat. It would literally melt the street under it and never ming the person behind you sitting in traffic. Yon can't tell me that 47 years later they can't find a way to disapate the heat? Another idea snuffed out by big(our government)oil??

Well leftist aka progressive treehugers this is from wikipedia.
“Chrysler Turbine Car
Throttle lag, high fuel consumption — 17 mpg (U.S.) (13.8 l/100 km) — and exhaust gas temperatures at idle plagued early models. Chrysler was able to remedy or mitigate most of these drawbacks and deficiencies.”

It appears leftist aka progressive treehugers this car was not a gas saver. If I recall it was back in the glory days of more power and higher speeds.
This research was done by car makers because there was profit in making bigger faster engines. This means there was competition to make bigger faster engines. There is no profit with high milage cars.

Having been one who drove the EV1 (and there weren't many) it was not as great as it was cracked up to be. It was very uncomfortable to drive no matter how the seat was adjusted, it road hard, the visibility was terrible and if you wanted to get the 80 miles out of a charge, you did not turn on the A/C or radio (or lights at night). It was a novelty to drive the first or second time but not after that it. Then there was the battery problem. They did not (and still don't) have an adequate battery for electric cars. They are working on improving them and they are getting better but still lacking. Even the newer hybrids don't have adequate batteries. Finally, I can't disagree with the theory that the oil companies were involved with GM deleting the EV1 but there have been rumors since way back in the 1940's that car manufacturers had carburators that could get 50 or 60 mpg but the oil companies quickly bought out the patents so they never got built. As far as anyone knows, those were just that, RUMORS.

This chant about the oil companies preventing people from developing high milage cars is just that a lie.
Why should a oil company care if a person makes a car that gets a 100 miles to the gallon? The oil companies still sell the gas, just a slower rate. Profit is profit, no matter how fast you make it.

Come on leftist aka progressives show me the law that prevents any leftist aka progressives from developing the electric car.
That is all I ask.
After asking that simple question leftist aka progressives I will ask another simple question. Why force me leftist aka progressives a person that is comfortable with using oil to pay for any research into alternate fuels? If you leftist aka progressives want these so called other energy source why do I have to pay for them?
When did the oil companies get this type of aid?

Well leftist aka progressive treehugger Atm_Thght with what you do, you will either be blind or have hairy palms.
Your hateful remarks are just another attempt by leftist aka progressive treehugger Atm_Thght to hide the fact there are no electric cars that can replace gas powered cars.

Well leftist aka progressive treehugger Atm_Thght with what you do, you will either be blind or have hairy palms.
Your hateful remarks are just another attempt by leftist aka progressive treehugger Atm_Thght to hide the fact there are no electric cars that can replace gas powered cars.

Well leftist aka progressive treehugger Atm_Thght with what you do, you will either be blind or have hairy palms.
Your hateful remarks are just another attempt by leftist aka progressive treehugger Atm_Thght to hide the fact there are no electric cars that can replace gas powered cars.