"Who Killed the Electric Car?"

As a person living in a world that is constantly questioning the idea of global warning and carbon emissions, it saddened me to know that we actually took a step in the right direction and progress was stopped dead in it's tracks. Does anybody even remember the electric car?!?!? Apparantly it came out about the early 90's, which would make people in my age group around 12ish (give or take a year.) It wasn't until I was well into the movie that they showed a clip of an old commercial for the electric car and my brain went DING!! I REMEMBER THOSE COMMERCIALS WHEN I WAS LITTLE, AND THEY WERE HORRIBLE!! The music was all depressing and the commercials were all dark--- except for the one where all the electrical appliances started unplugging themselves and 'traveling' outside to "meet" the electric car---does anybody remember that commercial from when they were little??

Here's a BIG question... why are we fighting over oil, I mean, starting wars over oil, when we had the oppurtunity to ease our dependence and we litterally crushed it. Why would a car company (GM) produce an electric car, try it's best to make it look bad, refuse to supply the car to people that wanted to buy it, then basically repo them all and just destroy them. At one point they were producing electric cars and them sending them straight to be crushed and shredded. Does anybody really want us to make progress? How do these things happen and nobody knows about them?!?!?

As Americans, why don't we care more about what's happening around us, not just in other parts of the world, but in our own country. Everyday they are making laws that whittle away our rights and decrease the quality of our living just so somebody can get rich. amd we do nothing about it. How much do they have to take from us before we decide to stand up and do something?!?!?