I'm on the EV list. I saw the premier in my location and have been to many screening and Electric vehicle events and I think that is the first time I have read that reaction after just seeing the film.

Of course my wife made fun of me for weeks about it because well lets jsut say it was really really sad for me.
I went to college to build electric vehicles and have owned one for as long as I could drive. The EV1 was like the great white hope of er I mean the great electric hope

What I saw was an entire society/culture that was driving the EV1 into the ground. It isn't just the oil cartels. It is what the public wants a status symbol or all around do everything vehicle with no limitations which the marketers push and the car companies build and the oil companies happily provide the energy for. How the car dealers and car makers didnt' want to sell them because there was so little maintenance and car buyers didn't want them because of the limitations. It wasn't just the oil industries. I think that there was alot of lying going on which was uneccessary. I think the 5000 person waiting list was really anti-marketed to to get them to cave in and agree they'd not want the EV1 it if they were called at all. GM had no need to do that. Heck 5000 people wanted it? That isn't enough for GM anyways. Oh I could go on forever about this but I really dont' think it is oil companies completely.