The Electric Car?
Answer=Capitalism
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People should be free to choose what is best for themselves as long as they do not infringe on the rights of others to do the same. I created this blog to discuss issues I have with big government, liberal media,and to talk about my support for capitalism and the Iraq War.
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So are you for this? or ridiculing this?
I am making fun of the movie "Who Killed the Electric Car." The documentary blamed GM for killing the car. Which makes NO SENSE becuase if GM could have made a profit on the car they would not have killed the project. Now GM hopes to make another electric car and they believe the time is right where it can make a profit now. It just shows that the market (capitalism) is the cause of products being successful or not.
And you don't think that having a major, widely-reported documentary entitled 'Who Killed the Electric Car" helped make the possibility of making and selling electric cars more profitable and thus more feasible? It always seems like you fail to realize the effect agitators like this have on affecting the market. Why ridicule them if their actions helped bring about a resurgence of the electric car, which assumedly is exactly what they wanted?
GM has known there are people out there who want that car. Problem is there were not enough last time. The movie did not tell GM anything it did not know. If anything it probably pissed them off that they were to blame for the cars not making it. GM has always wanted to make an electric car - they feel the market will be ready in a few years for it to be profitable.
I can only hope that the Federal Government doesn’t make the same mistake the California government did and mandate that car companies must produce a certain percent of electric cars out of the total productions of cars per year, which, by the way, is what killed the electric car. Telling business how to do their job is the fastest way to get that business to not do what you want.
I qoute from the link:
"The film deals with the history of the electric car, its development and commercialization, mostly focusing on the General Motors EV1, which was made available for lease in Southern California in the late 1990's, after the California Air Resources Board passed the ZEV mandate in 1990, as well as the implications of the events depicted for air pollution, environmentalism, Middle East politics, and global warming.
The film details the California Air Resources Board's reversal of the mandate after suits from automobile manufacturers, the oil industry, and the George W. Bush administration. It points out that Bush's chief influences, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, and Andrew Card, are all former executives and board members of oil and auto companies."
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