who REALLY killed the electric car?

So today I watched the film Who Killed the Electric Car?, directed by Chris Paine.

I have to say I was really disappointed with the movie. Instead of presenting a good technical argument for why the car was "killed". I felt like I was a watching a film whose first half was a commercial for the EV1 and the second half which was your typical conspiracy theory/fear mongering mockumentary.

But you know what, I know what REALLY killed the electric car, it's

practicality and the hybrid

In essence, the idea of the hybrid solved the problems that the electric car couldn't fix. For example, the lack of mobility of the electric car was due to the fact that there was no infrastructure and the lengthy recharge time would make long trips impossible. By using gas as a main source of fuel, the hybrid car is able to survive within the current fuel infrastructure and at the same time maintain the efficiency and "greenness" of an electric motor. Now I'm not going to turn this into an article on why you should buy a hybrid so I'll end it there. But I want to disillusion people to the type of arguments these "documentaries" present and how important it is to question and look at every side of the argument and understand the importance of technical arguments when it comes to technical issues rather than simply pointing fingers. And yes I do agree that GM's recall of the car could have been handled better (as they have admitted on their own corporate website), but you have to understand the amount of imperfections the car still had and the fact that GM was accountable for the car's safety issues and the safety of the drivers. G'day.

immigration and stabilizationalismology for dummies

So I was watching this video from an article from one of my most favoritist sites ever called digg.com

Here's a link to the specific article:

gobbedy goo!

hosted by digg.com of course

After reading some others opinions and slowly "tearing at the fabric" of this guy's argument. Such as the fact that those 1 million gumballs are probably supporting 4 gumballs each, I started thinking about where our world is headed in terms of population. In the US, I have noticed that the idea of the "traditional family" is waning as slowly more and more people are having less and less children and with some taking the Christian Troy route and not getting hitched at all. Yes, it seems that the divorce rate is only getting higher and higher and birth rate lower and lower. Add this in with the growing awareness and use (hopefully) of contraceptives in third world countries where population growth is a problem; And we see then that once the baby boomer populations start to die out...(yay for the job market) and the impact of child limits in China takes its long term effect, the population growth curve will start to level off. Maybe even dropping. Short and to the point, I know thats how you like it. After this optimistic realization and sigh of relief, I take my leave. But shit, I could be completely wrong.

oh it all makes sense now

If you want nothing, you have everything.

another random thought of the day...

sprankton....a noun

disease you get from chewing too much

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credits to http://www.dailymail.co.uk for the article