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miriam_eReading an article dispelling the myths about electric cars I became amazed at how many lies have been propagated by the Fox media. I was going to say "errors" instead of "lies", however it became clear that they are not simple mistakes, but a deliberate campaign of misinformation. Especially in the USA, but also in Australia and in UK, Murdoch's repellent media machine chews up the truth and spits it out as falsehoods in the service of raping the planet and its people for money and power.
An electric car, in the course of crash-testing had its battery compartment broken so that it leaked coolant and was left switched on, sitting exposed to the weather for three weeks in a vacant lot and then eventually ignited into flame. The manufacturer requires that the batteries be removed after such damage, making this kind of thing impossible... and who is going to walk away from their damaged $20,000 car and leave it sitting, switched on for three weeks anyway?
Neil Cavuto said on his Fox Business show that the Volt, an electric car manufactured by Chevrolet, is "a plug-in that blows up. The battery heats up. It's killing people. It's maiming them." This a lie. Nobody has been hurt by an electric car bursting into flame. Compare this with the quarter of a million conventional cars that catch fire each year. ( http://www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/statistics/v9i1.pdf )
Fox should be held accountable for the lies they propagate. If they had to pay hefty fines every time they lied then the general population might hold more realistic views about the world. We might finally start to actually tackle climate change, put an end to capricious wars, slow ecological destruction, treat people who are different from us (gays, immigrants, etc) with a little bit of dignity, make access to basic health care a right in the USA (like it is in other first-world nations, and like it was in USA before Nixon screwed them over).
Please excuse the angry rant. I just find it infuriating that Murdoch's disgusting Fox Network can get away with so much pure evil.
An electric car, in the course of crash-testing had its battery compartment broken so that it leaked coolant and was left switched on, sitting exposed to the weather for three weeks in a vacant lot and then eventually ignited into flame. The manufacturer requires that the batteries be removed after such damage, making this kind of thing impossible... and who is going to walk away from their damaged $20,000 car and leave it sitting, switched on for three weeks anyway?
Neil Cavuto said on his Fox Business show that the Volt, an electric car manufactured by Chevrolet, is "a plug-in that blows up. The battery heats up. It's killing people. It's maiming them." This a lie. Nobody has been hurt by an electric car bursting into flame. Compare this with the quarter of a million conventional cars that catch fire each year. ( http://www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/statistics/v9i1.pdf )
Fox should be held accountable for the lies they propagate. If they had to pay hefty fines every time they lied then the general population might hold more realistic views about the world. We might finally start to actually tackle climate change, put an end to capricious wars, slow ecological destruction, treat people who are different from us (gays, immigrants, etc) with a little bit of dignity, make access to basic health care a right in the USA (like it is in other first-world nations, and like it was in USA before Nixon screwed them over).
Please excuse the angry rant. I just find it infuriating that Murdoch's disgusting Fox Network can get away with so much pure evil.