Our blogging assignment this week was to write about the documentary we saw in class, Who Killed The Electric Car?. This is one of my favorite documentaries, another that I actually own (even though I seem to have misplaced it currently). I like it because it talks about an interesting subject and because it's more balanced and even-handed than many documentaries that I tend to watch. Although it comes from an obvious pro-environmentalist POV, it also tries to show all sides of the issue. It interviews not only electric car owners but oil & car company representatives as well as politicians who were responsible for killing the electric car mandate.
One thing that I mentioned in class was that the movie did not spend a lot of time talking about electric/gasoline hybrid cars. Since the beginning of this decade hybrid car ownership has skyrocketed in this country, mostly due to the success of the Toyota Prius. I felt like the filmmakers could have talked about how many people who would potentially buy an electric car have instead settled for buying hybrids, and how that's not a perfect solution but at least it's a step in the right direction.
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