[Vision2020] [Bulk] Re: who killed the electric car?

[Paul Rumelhart]

Bill London wrote:

> Yes, engineers likely could design more efficient vehicles and better 
> power sources -- but will they be allowed to do so?
> That is the lesson of the electric car fiasco in California.
> When the gas/auto industries were able to destroy the state mandate 
> for zero emission cars, they stopped their engineers from improving 
> the existing electric cars, stopped their customers from buying any 
> (or transferrring their leases to purchases), and destroyed all 
> existing vehicles.
> BL


I think they will eventually be allowed to do their designs.  What I 
can't tell you is if they will be allowed to do so by the 
forward-thinking progressives or by those who will be picking up the 
pieces after the oil runs dry and the economy comes crashing down.

I definitely want to watch the DVD.  I am entertained by watching 
self-serving billionaires ruin everything for us because they have a 
level of greed most people stamp out of their children by the time they 
are four.  Gives me faith in humanity.

Paul
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