Foul play my a$$.
Posted on 06/13/2006 1:23:56 PM PDT by freemarket_kenshepherd
The June 9 “Now with David Brancaccio” could well have been titled PBS’s “Tin-Foil Conspiracy Theatre” as the newsmagazine looked at death of the electric car from the Michael Moore-like lens of a left-wing filmmaker.
Rather than entertaining the notion that a lack of market demand doomed the vehicles, “Now” instead pushed filmmaker Chris Paine’s arguments that the “clean” car’s demise was the result of a sinister plot by GM and Big Oil. That film, “Who Killed the Electric Car,” is scheduled for a June 28 release in New York and Los Angeles.
Looking into the demise of the electric car, Paine said, he began “to realize that something really had happened. That it was foul play.”
“Foul play implicated in the death of these cars,” Brancaccio asked. But the real “foul play” here, or what Paine called “spin,” was what amounted to a 30-minute PBS promo for the latest left-wing film coming out of Hollywood.
Paine explained, “The idea of the film is why is it so hard for us to get off of oil,” adding, “whenever you have big change, there's big forces that say, ‘No, no, no, we don't want the change.’
But those big forces aren’t shady executives in a back room. They’re consumers who never warmed to a vehicle that was inconvenient to recharge, despite tax credits offered for electric vehicles.
[for more, see article at businessandmedia.org]
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Someone should film the executives at PBS and what they drive...
Foul play my a$$.
plug in hybrids are coming. they make alot of sense.
I have a work colleague who drives an electric car. He told me this theory some months ago. According to him, electric cars are just so damn good they threatened to destroy the oil industry so they had to be killed off.
I wanna know who killed Public Television? Something tells me its a BIG conspiracy cooked up by Big Brancaccio, Big Moyers and Big Bird.
Leftists say: The people are fools! They are easily tricked and led astray by greedy businessmen and slick advertising campaigns! Left to themselves, chaos will erupt! We need to take things away from them for their own good!
Folks didn't buy them; but their biggest problem was production size (usually too small) or design. But of course, that's a conspiracy. Come on, wackaloons, keep it up.
Yeah, I'm sure GM killed it because it thought that the electric car would obsolete all of those factories that produce gasoline powered cars.
They have barely met the first condition for my requirements (ie. "car"), and the second factor - coolness - is still eons away from reality.
I agree. However, until they make one that acts just like a normal vehicle, people won't buy them enmass
Gasoline, delivered to your car, costs about $3.00 per 125,000 BTU. Electricity, delivered to your house, costs about $5.00 per 125,000 BTU. Tell me why plug-in hybrids make sense.
They pulled the plug after two of the chargers caused house fires....
one at a fashion model's house.
The extension cords kept getting tangled up.
they come up with an electric car with the range, capabilities, comfort and performance of mine for a reasonable price and I surely would consider it.
Agreed. I never understood why I should go out and buy a car that costs more to fuel.
Make 'em all white and call 'em "iCars" and I think I could guarantee them 2% of the market.
The most powerful locomotive engines use electric motors. Of course, the electricity is provided by diesel generators.
yitbos
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