Who Killed the EV?

The documentary of “Who Killed The Electric Car” is a prime example of Capitalism in its extreme form.  As concerned as the world is about fossil fuel consumption and “going green” these large corporations are limiting the progress of technology so they can earn more capital, like GM did with these EV’s.  By taking that giant leap in progress, GM bypassed major oil corporations and vehicle corporations and had the ability to cut them out from making capital.

Although not using fossil fuels and a non-obsolescent car has many benefits, the release of an EV in our current market would produce many negatives.  The capitalistic market is a system that maintains itself.  GM could have done a service alternative energy sources by releasing the EV but they didn’t because of the “profit is most important” idea fixed within capitalism. 

If GM bypassed oil corporations, oil corporations would lose much of their earnings in the automotive market in a relatively short period of time.  In turn, this would cause a large and long-term increase in the unemployment pool because so many products rely on oil and petroleum.  An electric vehicle would only be the beginning of an increase in technology in the electric energy field.  Once a form of technology is invented it rapidly progresses.  What was new a week ago is obsolete the next week because technology develops from technology.

If GM released the EV, they would have surpassed other vehicle corporations and forced them to go in the direction of lower production costs to maintain their competition within their market.  Therefore the foreign automotive market would cut their labor force, allocate a large expense in the research and development department, outsource their labor, or any combination of the multitude of responses.

Any angle you look at it, GM killed the electric car to maintain a healthy economy instead of a healthy Earth.  The exclusion of oil would take a grand scale blow to the vehicle industry and the oil industry.  Capitalism is an overwhelming system that governs our most personal decisions as well as the markets we depend on.