Smithsonian Removes EV1 Exhibit

johnMG writes to mention a Seattle PI article on the Smithsonian's move to remove the EV1 electric sedan from display. From the article: "The upcoming film 'Who Killed the Electric Car?' questions why General Motors created the battery-powered vehicles and then crushed the program a few years later. The film opens June 30th. GM happens to be one of the Smithsonian's biggest contributors. But museum and GM officials say that had nothing to do with the removal of the EV1 from display."

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Re:The reason the electric car died . . .

[Overly Critical Guy]

Five gets you ten that the movie comes up with some wild-ass conspiracy theory involving oil company influence at GM, though. After all, when an activist-favored technology fails utterly in the marketplace, it has to be the fault of Big Evil Corporations.

Today, you're enlightened and educated if you blame all problems on capitalist conspiracies (especially if they can be linked to Bush in some way) instead of looking at the facts and forming a common sense, moderate opinion. It's just too much work now to do any research in order to come to a conclusion. Instead, people do they reverse--they have a conclusion when they then select the evidence for and put into a book or film. A good example is Al Gore's factually challenged global warming film. I'm happy that the press is finally starting to report that man-made global warming is actually not a scientific consensus, as it has been reported for at least a decade.