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I watched the award-winning documentary ‘Who Killed The Electric Car’ earlier today. I actually had to stop watching with 30mins to cool off because it made me so mad!

Basically, we already have zero-polluting electric cars that are safe, fast, can adequately suit the needs of most casual drivers in the city. Yet, despite their revoltuionary-ness, GM Motors, the Oil Industry and Oil lobbies effectively killed it off by down-promoting the vehicles with, quite frankly, horrific and frightening supposed ‘adverts’ which has more in kin with those cold war nuclear warning films than the basic tenants of advertising! Despite long waiting lists, GM Motors blindly said there was no demand, recalled every car already on the road and had them crushed. Yes - ZERO-POLLUTING, WORKING, FAST CARS were taken off their lease-holders and crushed. The lease-holders even offered millions of pounds to GM to buy their enviromentally friendly cars but this offer was refused flat out.

The motor industry was scared by what they had created - partly because when you put a zero-emission car next to the rest of their gas-guzzling, pollutant spitting line up they make themselves look bad. However, the major force in stopping the electric car was a combination of the backwards thinking oil industry (Electric Cars = no oil needed = no $$$$ / reduced $$$ as there is more oil to go around). Their solution? Hydrogen Fuel Cell cars (which won’t be affordable to the general public for another 20 years, and i won’t mention how expensive the hydrogen fuel will be for them, either… )

It made me SO angry - more so because the general American public are happy to sit by and watch corporations dictate, decide and destroy our futures. Here in the E.U. this is less apparent. Our politicians are certainly not synonymous/in the pockets of lobby groups and massive corporations.

It’s a shame that GM and the oil industry bought up the controlling stakes/rights to the technology in these cars.. because the E.U. would jump on them.