Have you seen the documentary "Who Killed the Electic Car".

To me, the most surprising part, that I didn't know, is to what effort the manufacturers went to destroy any evidence that electric cars even existed. I'm not aware of another product that the manufacturer discontinued. And not give you a way to buy the product and keep it. And then go to such an effort to totally vaporize the cars.

Why weren't the cars donated to some place for more research?

>>>Neither one of us is going to convince the other. Like you, I believe that reducing our dependence on oil is probably the best thing we can do for our national security.
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>>Yup. As someone said to me a few weeks ago, let the Arab nations drink their oil. They sure don't have anything else going for them other than sitting on top of oil.
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>But, can you ever imagine Bush asking Americans to reduce their usage of oil for the national benefit?