Who Killed the Electric Car?

On Tuesday, September 5, 2006, I went to see the movie Who Killed the Electric Car?. I'm in the mood for documentary as films, so I thought I'd go see this one as well.

This was not as good as An Inconvenient Truth, but the facts are very well laid out. The information is presented in a very easy to understand fashion, and an interesting manner. When the electric car was hip and happening, and people were considering it as an option, I was too young. Now that I have seen this documentary, I am seriously considering a fully electric car or a hybrid (or a plug-in hybrid) as a car that I would buy.

It is also quite disgusting what the auto companies did to kill people's interest in the electric car. All I can say is shame on all the auto makers. In fact, if they refuse to make any electric cars, I'll have to look into an alternative company that does provide them. Hydrogen fuel cell is a piece of shit, used to delay people into thinking that there will be a environmentally friendly alternative. Not to mention, hydrogen fuel is expensive! Plugging into an outlet to charge your battery only adds at most $100 per month onto the hydro bill. $100 would not even fill up your tank in a hydrogen car.

You may think that I'm easily influencable. I just think that the arguments for an electric car is very sound, and getting one would help our future, as it would help save the environment.

Today was a day of last minutes. Well only two, but still. I was supposed to have training for my tutorial session job today, but I got an e-mail cancelling it last minute, so I was free this afternoon. I went to run an errand, I went to the Zellers to buy a zippered mattress cover/protector, and when I got home at around 1:45 p.m., there was a message on my answering maching asking me if I were free and available to cover a step class at YMCA for 5:30 p.m.. I was available, so I covered it. This was my first step class completely in French, and I guess my first step class ever, since I never apprenticed with a step instructor, and I have not had too many opportunities to teach step myself.

The cute guy was working at the YMCA today. When I was leaving however, he was tending to a recycle paper bin, so I don't know what that means.