I keep reading the steaming pile that comes out of big oil’s advertising mills and lobbyist promotions and I’m forced to gag every time they turn out more lying crap and the American public swallows it. When are we going to learn that big oil cares nothing for anything except profits. Sure any company has to show a profit to stay in business but if they have to poison the planet and kill off hundreds of thousands of people a year to get it, then they must be considered a threat to humanity. It is way past time to put the internal combustion engine on the shelf. It has been ready to go for a number of years but big oil has done everything in its rather impressive power to keep it in our cars and poisoning our kids. I’ve laid out a short list of attempts to supplant the internal combustion engine, all of which have been mysteriously curtailed despite their seemingly successful application. Take a look. You tell me.
1996, the first electric car, the EVI by General Motors. It was leased in California, never sold. It went 0-100klm in 9 seconds and it was quiet, caused no pollution and could be charged in our garage with a regular electrical outlet. Ten years later they were gone. GM wouldn’t renew the leases, recalled them and destroyed them all.
1997, Nissan came out with the Hyper Mini, electric cars tat were only released in Tokyo except for a group that were leased to the city of Pasadena, CA. They used them for city workers. The city tried to buy them but in August of 2006 when the leases ran out Nissan recalled them and destroyed them.
Also in 1997 Toyota came out with the RAV4-EV a four-wheel electric car, powered by the EV-95 NiMH battery. IT cost 9 cents a kilowatt hour to recharge it and you could fill it up for $2.70. They stopped manufacture in 2003 and when the leases ran out in 2005 they pulled it and destroyed them all.
In 2005 Chevron-Texaco bought out the patents for the EV-95 NiMH battery from Toyota for $30M and tore down the factory that made them.
IN addition, BMW developed a commercial car that ran on hydrogen around 2001. Arnold Schwarzenegger drove a Hummer powered by hydrogen when he was governor of California.
Last year the GENEPAX, a car that runs on water was developed. It can drive one hour @ 80 Km per hr on a liter of water.
Why are none of these cars already in the market? Why would an oil company, Chevron-Texaco buy up a battery patent and destroy the factory that makes them? The answer is simple. The advent of all this new technology will drop the bottom out of the oil market. The oil companies can’t let that happen no matter how many hundreds of thousands of people are poisoned by their product. They aren’t in the medical business they’re in the oil business and it doesn’t matter to them if they poison the planet as long as they show a huge profit.
Now there is nothing illegal about Chevron-Texaco buying up a patent and trashing the product; immoral, yes, inhuman, certainly but not illegal. So what do you do? What we have always done in order to get regress in situations that are not dealt with by the law. Boycott any product made by Chevron-Texaco. There are plenty of oil companies from which you can buy anything they sell. I already carry a list of gas companies that I will not buy from in my car. I rarely have trouble finding a place to fill up.
And when a boycott puts Chevron-Texaco out of business we can move on to BP, Exon and the rest.