After watching the documentary "Who Killed the Electric Car?" I'll never purchase another General Motors product.

The EV1 was a car that was loved by those who had the privilege to drive it. The car was reportedly suitable for 90 percent of the population and recharged at the equivalent to 60-cent gas.

It was a car that was clean, durable, nearly maintenance free and with the new battery technology that was eventually developed had a range up to 160 miles between charges and lasted the life of the car.

Eleven hundred were made and leased out in California and Arizona. At the end of their lease they were all ordered returned and in time, despite strong protest, were destroyed. GM turned down an offer of $1.9 million for the last 60 or so that remained.

According to the movie, the battery technology that was eventually used in the cars was invented by a man in Michigan. GM bought controlling interest in his company which they eventually sold to, guess who, an oil company, Chevron Texaco.

The EV 1 should be brought back and the technology freed.

The blood stains of brave young American soldiers are partially on the hands of greedy corporations and the corrupt politicians from both parties they are in bed with. Using their influence, power and dirty money to bury clean, domestic technology and energy makes the world a more dangerous and deadlier place.

Where are the newspapers and the major media in owning up to their investigative First Amendment responsibilities?

Watch the documentary.

William E. Stephens

Rural Eureka