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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (296108)7/21/2006 2:16:30 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (2) of 1572717
 
Wow. That's one hot car.

BTW this is the article I asked if mindmeld wanted to see........its an eerie reminder of what GM did to the streetcare systems in most large American cities:

Film probes demolition of alternative-fuel vehicles

By John Hartl

Imagine if the automobiles in Disney/Pixar's "Cars" were rounded up, taken to the Arizona desert to be crushed, then turned into scrap metal. The outrage would be deafening, because the cartoon cars in the movie have been Disneyfied/Pixared into people.

But even when the cars are not given human traits, even when they're clearly made of metal and glass, you may find yourself shuddering at the sight. There's something deeply disturbing about the image of hundreds of cars, all of them in good if not perfect condition, being systematically and quietly demolished.

Why would General Motors have produced and leased hundreds of electric cars in the late 1990s, only to recall almost all of them to be destroyed a few years later? Why would they collect the cars from satisfied customers and not allow them to buy the vehicles? (Toyota had a similar policy.)

The answers are suggested in Chris Paine's documentary whodunit, "Who Killed the Electric Car?," which rounds up a collection of suspects to blame — Big Oil, the media, an indifferent public, California's Air Resources Board. But you still find yourself wondering why the company would behave as if the cars had never existed.

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