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Originally Posted by Fletch XXX
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There was a guy up in Canada who a few years back started making electric cars I think based on the golf cart model. They were absolutely nifty but were quite small and with a low top speed so they only had limited use, so he decided to pitch his car to national parks. One such park tried one out and ended up buying a bunch of them and were using them when the government found out and immediately shut them down as well as his enterprise.
It was on some consumer-watch type program on TV not too long ago. All I could do was shake my head in disgust.
So even the smallest move in that direction gets the plug pulled. Because it's oil or nothing. Oil is money, oil is what drives industrial and corporate America.