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List Price: $14.94 Our Price: $9.99 You Save: $4.95 Features • AC-3 • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 2006 DVD Release : 14 November, 2006 |
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Who Killed the Electric Car? description It begins with a solemn funeral…for a car. By the end of Chris Paine's lively and informative documentary, the idea doesn't seem quite so strange. As narrator Martin Sheen notes, "They were quiet and fast, produced no exhaust and ran without gasoline." Paine proceeds to show how this unique vehicle came into being and why General Motors ended up reclaiming its once-prized creation less than a decade later. He begins 100 years ago with the original electric car. By the 1920s, the internal-combustion engine had rendered it obsolete. By the 1980s, however, car companies started exploring alternative energy sources, like solar power. This, in turn, led to the late, great battery-powered EV1. Throughout, Paine deftly translates hard science and complex politics, such as California's Zero-Emission Vehicle Mandate, into lay person's terms (director Alex Gibney, Oscar-nominated for Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, served as consulting producer). And everyone gets the chance to have their say: engineers, politicians, protesters, and petroleum spokespeople--even celebrity drivers, like Peter Horton, Alexandra Paul, and a wild man beard-sporting Mel Gibson. But the most persuasive participant is former Saturn employee Chelsea Sexton. Promoting the benefits of the EV1 was more than a job to her, and she continues to lobby for more environmentally friendly options. Sexton provides the small ray of hope Paine's film so desperately needs. Who Killed the Electric Car? is, otherwise, a tremendously sobering experience. --Kathleen C. Fennessy Stills from Who Killed the Electric Car? (click for larger image)
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Government: GUILTY! |
| In California, many people already drove the elecrtic cars being happy for about $200 to $500 a month! But most people knew nothing about them, because it wasn't allowed to be advertised! Soon, the electric car was killed off the earth completely by... the GOVERNMENT! WHY? Well, it wasn't mantioned in the film, but it is obveous!
1. The government needs you to buy oil 2. The government has an agenda fighting Iraq (which is a seperate story) 3. The government needs a reason to fight Iraq, which part of it is oil. If electric cars would have taken off on the markets, the need of oil wouldn't be depended on Iraq anymore, therefore the war would have to find another reason to continue. Unless you really believe in terrorists, which is yet another story. The bottom line is the government is guilty of killing the electric car. I'm a good Christian boy, but let me just say this: Let Bush burn in hell! There I said it. I hope God can forgive me... |
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