[A-IMC radio] Climate Change/Electric Vehicles/Peak Oil

[Ian Goldsmith]

Hi All

I offer some useful websites below on Climate Change and Peak Oil and 
Electric Vehicles.

http://www.sonyclassics.com/whokilledtheelectriccar/presskit.pdf  in 
particular is useful on electric cars.

The recent movie shown at the film festivals called *'Who Killed The 
Electric Car' *was particularly enlightening. This pdf is really 
brilliant and quite helpful for considerations of the existence private 
transport not so constrained by carbon fossil fuels. I'm very keen on 
audio programmes on electric vehicles and if others have those would be 
grateful to know of them.

 When 'Who Killed The Electric Car' comes out on DVD it is well worth a 
look at for anyone who hasn't seen it..Very nice electric cars that 
people were lining up to buy after trying them out and finding that they 
were brilliant, were withdrawn and destroyed [crushed ], quite clearly 
because they threatened oil profiteering. The film does a very good job 
in providing evidence for that. An important initiative towards the mass 
production of a much more ecologically friendly private vehicle has been 
scuttled on certain major moves, and the process towards that delayed 
with certain major initiatives - but knowing that a  lot of technology 
as well and truly come of age is encouraging at certain levels.  It's 
not technological constraint but vested interest greed that has delayed 
what is important - the coming of the age of the electric car. They had 
this brilliant electric vehicle that you plug in and that also had solar 
panels. It looked great. Nice effective and efficient cars with no 
petrol dependency on an on going basis. People who test drove the cars 
that were outlined on the film were quite excited with them  The film 
was directed by *Chris Paine *and quite incredible. It shows many models 
of electric vehicle that functioned very well being scrapped, and 
protests from the designers of the vehicles and from celebrity figures 
and from general members of the public who were crying foul - almost 
enough to be arrested. Imagine if the designers of them had been... ( 
I've included reference to an audio talk given by Chris Paine below.)

For anyone in Wellington, there is a *film* at the *Film Archive* on 
Friday the 18th and Saturday the 19th of August at 7pm each night on 
*Peak Oil* ( - looking at how Cuba has managed to cope with not having 
had plentiful supplies of oil with the situation there.)

Ian

_*Climate Change*: 

_www.britishcouncil.org/zerocarboncity
www.carbontrust.co.uk
www.ipcc.ch
http://www.bbc.co.uk/climate/
http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/crosscutting/climate.html
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/dn6302


_*Electric Vehicles:*_
http://www.dailyvodcasts.com/?p=10538 ( Who Killed The Electric Car?)
http://www.whokilledtheelectriccar.com
http://www.evworld.com/ [ Online Electric Vehicle Magazine ]
http://energycrisis.org/de/lecture.html
http://www.greenercars.com/drivinggreen.html
http://www.podcastpickle.com/casts/1689/  (Chris Paine MP3 download)
http://www.ecovehicle.com/

_*Peak Oil:*_
http://www.energybulletin.net/primer.php
http://www.peakoil.net/
http://www.peakoil.com/
http://www.globalpublicmedia.com/
http://www.savetheplanet.co.nz/ [ a website looking for proactive 
suggestions]
http://www.hubbertpeak.com/


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