Just as the documentary,
Who Killed the Electric Car? is coming to theatres, and the general public is poised to learn about the
EV1 and its premature demise, the Smithsonian has opted to remove the EV1 from display with no plans to exhibit it in the future.
Source:
Smithsonian Removes Electric-Car Exhibit (AP)
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The above decision ties back to a quote Al Gore uses in his documentary,
An Inconvenient Truth:
Quote:
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
-- Upton Sinclair
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Apparently, even the venerable Smithsonian would rather hide history than confront it, if said history makes a financial supporter uneasy. This is the "uncomfortable truth" that is part and parcel of our problems accepting and addressing the
inconvenient truth of global warming and related issues.
