An Inconvenient Truth
I saw Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, a dismaying and crystal clear picture about global warming and how this is a reality. Two weeks ago I saw ‘Who Killed the Electric Car?’ and the answer is GM, 13 years ago, when they ultimately decided they could make more short term gains with the Hummer rollout. What an absurd embarrassment, and really funny today too as Kerkorian just this morning sold off 28 million shares, or 9.9% of the company. Back to GM’s program in 1993, where driving radius on one battery charge was a problem for several years until an inventor in Detroit figured this out. Texaco bought that advanced battery technology and shelved it so the electric cars couldn’t get the same radius as a full tank of gas. Here is a technology that the world has and does not use. Mechanics use white gloves to fix these damn cars. No moving parts, no busted engine, no pollution. Zero. Zilch. You drive it home, plug it in, fill the battery with what would be the cost of 30% of a tank of gas (in electricity/coal or windpower, which we have). I voted for Gore once, and his movie reminds me what I like about him. Unlike most corrupt government wafflers, Mr. Gore has been consistent on this position for thirty years. I respect this about him. I would buy an electric car tomorrow after having seen the electric car movie. The hybrid thing is fine, the hydrogen thing is years off, but we already had the electric car over a decade ago so what in the hell is the world thinking? What happened? The leases came up, GM yanked every last one and shredded each and every car into a million little scraps… what, to erase the cars from memory? What times we live in.
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