Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 09:16:38 -0700
Reply-To: Don Hanson <dhanson@GORGE.NET>
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From: Don Hanson <dhanson@GORGE.NET>
Subject: deisel schmeisel- I go electric (from digest) Not much van
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This is an interesting thread. After watching the DVD "Who Killed the
Electric Car" recently, I've become even more appalled about how our
'system' works. I know, it's just a movie. Yeah, sure, Michael Moore and
all like him are a bunch of commies (or is it Terrorists now) and all
these Lefties are full of shite when they make these 'muckraking movies'
attacking our sacred national institutions like General Motors and
Blackwater... but still..
It seems there actually were, quite recently, electric plug-in cars, many
of them, in daily use. It seems that California had the beginnings of the
infrastructure in place to plug these vehicles in. It seems that the (
many hundreds of?) people who had them, on a trial basis, really loved em
and drove em around cheaply and problem-free until they were "confiscated"
by the car company.
This quick and enthusiastic public acceptance and successful trial
program obviously scared the crap outta The Auto-Industrial complex
(American) and the Big Oil Company Cartel. They panicked and quite
awkwardly 'squashed' the whole concept....Literally! They sent out Re-po
head hunters and removed the prototypes right from peoples driveways...if
the people defied their orders to turn in the cars..(the auto companies let
out the prototypes as 'Leased Vehicles'. Some wealthy moviestar types
offered 20 times the worth of the vehicles to be allowed to keep them...No
Dice! The automakers obviously didn't want this technology in public
view.)
There were fairly large demonstrations (not given any media coverage, of
course) when the last car was driven away to the crusher (out of view, in
Palmdale or somewhere)
Then, in a "Rove-ian" bait and switch move, the automakers and the oil
companies began pushing this Hydrogen "fuel cell" technology...saying
"Electric car's aren't any good, but in 15 years..we can have Fuel Cell
technology working". !5 more years of 'status-quo' till they sell us the
last drop of petroleum at a huge profit..15 years so they can figure out how
to maximize their profits from selling us as yet un-workable technology that
doesn't really make sense.
There was also mention of, and interviews with an old odd-ball inventor
who patented a better battery, some time ago, and who's patent was bought
out by business.. It may be the new lithium Ion technology that is just now
emerging after the patent "timed-out".(guessing here)
So, we had the cars ten (+/-) years ago and the public facilities to plug
them in (I recall seeing a bank of plugs in California and asking bout
them."Electric car plugs- the wave of the future" my pal told me) ...or you
could plug in at home. People drove em around happily, until the Profiteers
decided they were not going to make enough money, if these cars were widely
used. They came and removed the great little working cars, many times in
an 'adversarial confrontation' with the un-consenting lease holder, took
em all away, trying to keep it secret (with some success) and crushed all
but one...which sits in a museum somewhere.
Below is a link to one site that I Googled up. The DVD, I think you can
still get that if your are interested (and the Big Boys haven't removed or
crushed THAT, too.) Worth a look, to see perhaps what we should be
speaking to our government representatives (hee hee) about.
http://www.sonyclassics.com/whokilledtheelectriccar/
Don Hanson
PS.. I'm not a conspiracy theorist. If someone says "That's doggie-doo
over there". I look. If it smells like ----, and looks like it, then
someone rubs my nose in it..I don't need to taste it, too. I'll call it
doggie do, even if I'm told, "Wrong, that's really Ice Cream... " I'd
rather gather information, then decide for myself.
Take a look at the info put forth in Who Killed the Electric Car? See what
YOU think..if you have time and inclination.
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