Tuesday, we finished watching the 2006 Documentary Film Who Killed the Electric Car? The film was very well made and was very appropriate to watch during our ongoing study of emerging information technology trends. The film documents the production, limited distribution, and ultimate recall and destruction of the electric car of the 1990's, the EV-1. What a drama! Seriously, the story is very dramatic. It follows a few folks who spent days, hours, even years upon years of their lives originally trying to introduce the EV-1 into society, and ultimately having to try to save their creation. The film follows a sequence of blame shifting questions to try and propose the reason for the EV-1's downfall, and really just shows that it was a combination of conservative, political, bureaucratic, energy wasting, oil guzzling, conservation spoiling bright ideas by the leaders of the country. I'm not a liberal, but come on man. I can see as well as the next guy can see that we need something like this for our society. Like I said last week, our globe is getting more crowded every day (See what I mean??) therefore, we need to reduce our footprint. We need to cut down on our resource use, and this is such a good way to do so. The gas prices will increase exponentially one day to a hundred billion dollars and then we'll see. In the mean time, I'm looking forward to Who Saved the Electric Car? !!! :)
"Batteries are the most dramatic household items. They don't just stop functioning or quit . . . they die. Man, what a shitty life, you're either working, or you're dead." - Demetri Martin
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