%26quot;who killed the electric car?%26quot; -government should . . .? The oil companies have gone too far, it is no secret that the Bush family is in the Texas oil business... I would never believe in scientology, but a series of ten books by l. ron hubbard was fun, the invasion earth series, really painted a good picture of how oil companies buy all the patents for alternative energy and kill those sources for the sake of making a quick fortune, when %26#039;who killed the electric car%26#039; came out, gas was only $2.36 in california, now for the same oil, same processors, same pipelines, they make billions more off of the same product,

I think the government should Force the oil companies to relinquish all of the patents for alternative energy, the car batteries, what the hell does texaco need that super car battery for anyway, just because it threatens the oil industry.

that would solve a Lot of the planets problems, if the government Took all of those patents and utilized them,

what do you all think?

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1 week ago

lets not forget that the patent for the better ev1 car battery was bought by enron/texico, and that there are other viable sources of alternative energy such as hydo, (hoover dam), wind (on top of Jay Leno%26#039;s huge car storage), and ever growing in popularity- nuclear (lets not forget what happened to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant) but they are indeed viable sources of power.
not to mention that there are better ways of getting power from coal without shooting up so much co*2

1 week ago

not to drift off on a tangent, but i am talking about monopoly, the oil companies buying patents and burying them. not unlike bill gates, remember the law suit from the government? buying up little programs so they wouldn%26#039;t compete with his programs, and offering for free what others would make you pay for.... or how yahoo didn%26#039;t want msn im to connect and deliver messages to their im, and he had his techs hack into their back door to keep the messages coming .... yea, like that.

the question, shouldn%26#039;t the government force the oil companies to share these patents with the world, for the betterment of humanity jcms

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• the car was never sold to anyone, people signed a contract to use and gave them back. They didn%26#039;t work and still do not work because of economics, not patents. Look, the Chinese won%26#039;t honor a US patent, so they are free to use all the double secret patents (give us a patent number please) that would make the EV car perfect.
  
  L Ron Hubbard, when I saw that name, you post lost ALL credibility
• battery techology killed the electic car.
  
  On another note, how do you think that we make electricity anyway ... right ... oil and coal.
  
  So much for saving the planet.
• California has enough problems with electrical supplies now. What would happen if six million drivers plug in to recharge their cars?
• sounds like an urban legend...I would hope that if this was true that some consumer advocate groups would have sounded the alarm by now...
• Maybe there should be a law saying that if a particular patent is not utilized for the public good then the patent holder could lose the protection of the patent.
  
  The patent is just there to ensure that people who develop beneficial technology get some financial benefit from it. Not to suppress the use of that technology.