[Sosfbay-discuss] Fwd: Join Grannies to see "Who Killed the Electric Car?"

[Andrea Dorey]

FYI.
Andrea

"We can have concentrated wealth in the hands of a few or we can have  
democracy, but we cannot have both."
---Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Raging Grannies of the Peninsula  
> <peninsula_raging_grannies at yahoo.com>
> Date: July 4, 2006 1:58:38 AM PDT
> To: Grannyfriends at grannies.com
> Subject: Join Grannies to see "Who Killed the Electric Car?"
>
> Grannies are going  to the Movies!
>
> We want everyone to see "Who Killed the Electric Car?" a  
> documentary made by Palo Alto resident Chris Paine  (Review Below)
>
> Some of the Grannies are going next Saturday July 8 and would love  
> it if  our  friends joined us!    Times not available yet, but it  
> will be showing at the Aquarius in dowtown Palo Alto. We are aiming  
> for an early evening showing.  If you're interested  reply  to this  
> email and also copy info at RagingGrannies.com .  Will let you know  
> details as soon as they become available.  Everyone to purchase her/ 
> his own ticket and it may sell out so I'll let you know when you  
> can purchase them.
>
> Granny Ruth R. (cell 650-279-8761)
>  Review of "Who Killed the Electric Car?" from Palo Alto Weekly here:
>
> Stars: ***
> Rating: PG for mature themes
> Run Time: 1 hour, 32 minutes
>
>
> Rising prices at the gas pumps are certain to make this incisive
> documentary de rigueur summer viewing.
>           Writer/director (and Palo Alto native) Chris Paine's requiem
> for the electric automobile takes the country's reluctance to accept
> the serious nature of our future (as we continue to pour massive
> amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere) and runs with it. Are we addicted
> to oil? Are we afraid of an environmentally clean future?
>           Yes say the brains behind General Motors' EV-1, the first
> electric car to be manufactured on these shores. In 1996 the original
> electric car appeared on the backroads; ten years later they are all
> gone despite a California legislation requiring automakers to
> manufacture a portion of future assemblies with zero-emission engines.
> What's wrong with this picture?
> With well-crafted momentum and a modicum of suspense Paine analyzes
> the conspiracy involving the untimely death of the EV-1. The suspects
> are legion: the oil industry, the consumer, the government, the
> California Air Resources Board and even the auto-makers themselves who
> lay down a double edged-sword of making and breaking the automobile of
> the future.
> Paine goes to great lengths to wholly examine his theories, resulting
> in a too-lengthy running time and a surplus of facts and figures. Yet
> the specifics create a sit-up-and-take-notice aura of doom that
> pervades the narrative much like Al Gore's impending disaster of "An
> Inconvenient Truth". Martin Sheen's narration is capable yet monotone,
> not completely in keeping with the crafty tone of Paine's trenchant
> dirge.
> This is a fight about the future and "Goliath" has won the first
> round. Stay tuned.
>

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