We had just finished watching an excellent eye-opening documentary titled Who Killed The Electric Car? last night. I have to say this was by far the best documentary we've seen yet. It is every bit relevant in today's oil-addicted and nature-threatened world. I personally think everyone should see this and draw the connection between why things are the way they are in the world today (from a consumer, political, and industrial standpoint) and keep the information in mind when going to the polls to vote.And this isn't just for Californians, or Americans for that matter. I can totally see how people around the world can benefit by better understanding what's happening in the United States and why.
Of course as is customary with truth-revealing media works such as this, we only heard about this DVD through word-of-mouth. So this blog is sort of my way of trying to make the informed audience aware of this work. Clearly it didn't have the media backing and marketing campaign to make the general public more aware of its existence (again probably intentionally due to the power our government has over the media).
And like what a good documentary does, it provides you with all the facts about what really happened to General Motor's (GM) EV-1 as well as other Big Auto efforts at trying to meet California's strict zero-emissions law (a law which was consequently overturned under tremendous pressures by Big Oil, Big Auto, consumer ignorance, and the political pressure from the White House under the current Bush Administration).
It ultimately allows you the viewer to process the information so you can draw your own conclusion. The facts are presented in a way that doesn't antagonize you like the Michael Moore docos. It's probably more in line with the Al Gore Powerpoint Presentation An Inconvenient Truth (we'll give a pass on his monthly $1200 energy bill and having four kids despite having known about the threat of climate change back in his college days), which itself was a groundbreaking doco since he used his name and authority to bring the issue of Global Warming and Climate Change in the mainstream, which was something none of the Science Channel and National Geographic docos could do.
Similar to other truth-revealing works of both fiction and nonfiction (e.g. Blood Diamond, The Insider, An Convenient Truth, Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 911, etc., you'll come away with a range of emotions from anger to hope to reservation to enlightenment.
I personally think the world be a much better place if people sought the truth and did something with it. This documentary is certainly yet another huge step in that direction.
