“'The American Love Affair with the Automobile': The Unspoken History of the Electric Car" by Larry Romanoff
December 09, 2019 A study of gasoline-powered automobiles reveals one of the greatest corporate frauds and resulting environmental disasters to ever have been inflicted on human society. There are three distinct but interwoven themes in this story: the promotion of gasoline-powered transportation by (a) the killing of mass public transit, (b) the genocide of electric vehicles, and (c) the creation of suburbs in American cities to make auto ownership a necessity of life. The American love affair with the automobile was a result of all three, beginning with a massive conspiracy to kill electric vehicles, which helped to kill mass transit and force Americans into private car ownership. Wood’s Electric Car, 1905 This story begins, as do most others, in the early 1900s, when the US was busy industrialising, when mass public transportation consisting of trains and trams was filling much of the nation’s needs. Autos were of course rapidly evolving...