The most amazing thing Who Killed The Electric Car? did for me had little to do with electric cars themselves. They are gone, and it becomes obvious in the movie that they are not coming back any time soon.

What the movie does is expose how economic interests on the part of the oil industry and car companies who have little incentive to change their traditional ways of doing business (they continue to make money as they operate), weak leadership at the Federal and State levels bending to these economic interests (how does it otherwise make sense to see such huge tax break incentives for buyers of Hummer vehicles) and comfortable consumers who refuse to acknowledge we have a problem with our low fuel efficiencies and are willing to do little or nothing about it, all come together to get in the way of evolving as a nation towards more sustainable and efficient transportation alternatives.

At the end of the movie, there is a glimmer of hope with talk about plug-in hybrid vehicles that could lead to efficiencies of over 150 MPG. Most definitely a documentary worth seeing, so you can see what you can and should do to help make a difference in your world.