{"id":135,"date":"2006-07-21T15:23:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-21T19:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orangeparade.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/07\/21\/who-killed-the-electric-car\/"},"modified":"2006-07-21T15:23:58","modified_gmt":"2006-07-21T19:23:58","slug":"who-killed-the-electric-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orangeparade.com\/wordpress\/2006\/07\/21\/who-killed-the-electric-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Killed The Electric Car?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night Jeremie, Eric and I saw &#8220;Who Killed the Electric Car?&#8221;.  It was avery interesting film and if it comes to your area, you should go see it. Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pluginamerica.com\/\">http:\/\/www.pluginamerica.com<\/a> for more information about plug-in hybrids. <\/p>\n<p>It makes me really sad to see such short-sighted business thinking on the part of the American car companies and I wonder how the engineers feel, changing the packaging but basically keeping up with the status quo.  Being from Michigan, it&#8217;s hard not to feel profoundly sad and angry that instead of embracing innovation and creating jobs and long-term possiblities, the US car companies chose technological stagnation, job loss and cars that use a lot of gas.  The car companies should be in the business of selling <em>cars<\/em>, any type of cars necessary to compete in the marketplace long-term. If they&#8217;d get out of bed with the oil companies maybe they could brush their teeth, look in the mirror and find their way to a future that&#8217;s good for business and the people.<\/p>\n<p>The movie doesn&#8217;t go in to this, but I think we should take a long hard look at the relationship between technological innovation , the stock market and executive compensation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night Jeremie, Eric and I saw &#8220;Who Killed the Electric Car?&#8221;. It was avery interesting film and if it comes to your area, you should go see it. Check out http:\/\/www.pluginamerica.com for more information about plug-in hybrids. It makes me really sad to see such short-sighted business thinking on the part of the American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orangeparade.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orangeparade.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orangeparade.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orangeparade.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orangeparade.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/orangeparade.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orangeparade.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orangeparade.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orangeparade.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}