26-11-2008, 12:32 PM
I put the excellent documentary Who Killed the Electric Car? on our channel in the Favorites and in the Good for Business Bad for People playlist. This is covered very well on this programme.
The same thing happened in Australia. In Sydney there are no more trams. Replaced with buses and cars. New roads (usually private tollways) are being built all over the place but no serious public transport infrastructure.
As much as I see GM and the other car manufacturers as environmental vandals and undeserving of any support in their current form they do actually make something tangible and useful as opposed the the finance sector which deals in abstracts and O's and 1's but it is the financial sector that is getting all the money thrown at it.
The same thing happened in Australia. In Sydney there are no more trams. Replaced with buses and cars. New roads (usually private tollways) are being built all over the place but no serious public transport infrastructure.
As much as I see GM and the other car manufacturers as environmental vandals and undeserving of any support in their current form they do actually make something tangible and useful as opposed the the finance sector which deals in abstracts and O's and 1's but it is the financial sector that is getting all the money thrown at it.
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"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.
“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.