On a totally different subject

Watch the documentary, Who Killed the Electric Car?, available on Netflix.

Then ask yourself, if GM created a reliable electric car in the 90s with something like a 90 mile range before needing a charge, leased them in California to ecstatic drivers, then took them back from the drivers (who begged to keep them), shipped them to Phoenix and crushed them so GM and the oil companies wouldn't have to worry about making any more of the frustratingly successful vehicles that used no gas and needed few repairs, . . . 

Why can't the car be brought back from the dead and improved with the technological gains we've made in the past ten years as an answer to the prayers of the American auto industry and our drivers?

It's a very well made documentary, by the way, enjoyable and informative, like a 90 minute expansion of an excellent piece of "60 Minutes" investigative journalism. And "as current as today's headlines," as they say in Coming Attraction Land.