April 24, 2007
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How ’bout the Bulls? I’m excited, yet cautious to see them go up 2-0 in their series with the Heat. Sure, its a long way to go so far, but you have to like their chances, even if it is the defending champs. And, I can’t forget that the Bulls blew a 2-0 lead WITH home court advantage 2 years ago against Washington. Even if the Bulls manage to win Friday and go up 3-0, I still think the series would be a long way from being over.
I watched a couple of movies over the weekend, one of them being “Who Killed The Electric Car?” which was a documentary. I swear, my taste in movies has gotten really boring, at least if you aren’t into documentaries and stuff like that. Still, this one was interesting, unless you lived in California or Arizona (it was only tested in those 2 states), you wouldn’t know that there was an electric car that was out as recently as last year. The way it was killed off is quite………..greedy, not that I’m surprised. The auto industry is just like any other industry, greedy, soul-less and only concerned about money. The term for people when they are environmentally friendly is green. Sure, the auto industry is all about the green, just not the same green that is earth friendly. I know the goal should be to turn a profit and make as much money as they can, I don’t blame them for that. However, there is still plenty of money to be made with an electric car. And one of the auto companies had a chance to be an innovator and be out front with this and they failed. Actually, I should clarify something, and this is going to come as a surprise. The electric car was invented 100 years ago. Shit, it was even driven on the road then. However, the internal combustion gas car was invented at the same time and people preferred it to the electric car. Not that I could blame people, it was a better car and they could not have known the issues we would later have with gas cars. Now, I’m well aware that this movie was environmental propaganda for the electric car. But, everybody agrees that we need to get off oil for many different reasons. And the electric car is another viable option which is much cleaner than oil, ethanol and even sugar. Those are facts that can be made without the movie. Like the fast food, gun, tobacco and (I shouldn’t go there with this last one, but shit, its not like I don’t know the truth) the (GULP) health insurance industries, the auto industry does not have a social conscious and doesn’t give a damn about anything besides money. I firmly believe that we as people and large companies have a moral and ethical responsibility to the world to do what is in the best interest of everybody, not just ourselves. Large companies in these industries (and even a lot not in those industries, such as Wal Mart) not only do not do much to help the world, they actually do things to make the world a worse place. The killing of the electric car is just another example of this. And I want to stress that the auto industry is not alone in the blame, there are many other people (such as the government) that can have a chunk of the blame. But, in a way, it all starts with the auto industry.
That’s all. I’m off my high horse. I really need to stop going on the horse and preaching so much, it can’t possibly be very interesting and can make me sound more arrogant than I already am. Yet, when I can’t come up with other things to write about, this is what you get. Plus, judging by the lack of comments for these posts, not many people seem to want to read this.
