I realize this documentary is a couple years old, but it is very interesting to see what GM and Big Oil did to the electric car. There were viable electric cars ready for the assembly line in the 1990s, but the whole program was quashed.
KARMA!
Fast-forward to 2008 and GM is on the verge of bankruptcy, the oil-dependent U.S. economy is listing badly to port and many working-class Americans can't afford to fuel up their cars.
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809353030/details
If we go back a 100~150 years, the thing that set the U.S. economy on its way to becoming a global economic superpower was Yankee Ingenuity (i.e., staying ahead of the curve, building better mousetraps, willingness to develop innovative technology that no other country had). Now the U.S. has a situation where the greedy, visionless old farts of the Big 3 and Big Oil are desperately trying to hang on to the status quo and are killing Yankee Ingenuity, thus turning the U.S. into an economic basketcase.
KARMA!
Fast-forward to 2008 and GM is on the verge of bankruptcy, the oil-dependent U.S. economy is listing badly to port and many working-class Americans can't afford to fuel up their cars.
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809353030/details
If we go back a 100~150 years, the thing that set the U.S. economy on its way to becoming a global economic superpower was Yankee Ingenuity (i.e., staying ahead of the curve, building better mousetraps, willingness to develop innovative technology that no other country had). Now the U.S. has a situation where the greedy, visionless old farts of the Big 3 and Big Oil are desperately trying to hang on to the status quo and are killing Yankee Ingenuity, thus turning the U.S. into an economic basketcase.
Comment