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Synopsis: With gasoline prices approaching $4/gallon, fossil fuel shortages, unrest in oil producing regions around the globe and mainstream consumer adoption and adoption of the hybrid electric car (more than 140,000 Prius' sold this year), this story couldn't be more relevant or important. The foremost goal in making this movie is to educate and enlighten audiences with the story of this car, its place in history and in the larger story of our car culture and how it enables our continuing addiction to foreign oil. This is an important film with an important message that not only calls to task the officials who squelched the Zero Emission Vehicle mandate, but all of the other accomplices, government, the car companies, Big Oil, even Eco-darling Hydrogen as well as consumers, who turned their backs on the car and embrace embracing instead the SUV. Our documentary investigates the death and resurrection of the electric car, as well as the role of renewable energy and sustainable living in our cou
Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Chris Paine
Actors: Martin Sheen, Reverend Gadget, Dave Barthmuss, Ed Begley Jr.
Production: Sony Pictures Classics
  4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.7
Metacritic:
70
Rotten Tomatoes:
89%
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PG
Year:
2006
92 min
$1,324,335
Website
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is this rampant grassroots

agitation for things that are new.

When you get a coalition of that size,

and that surprising character,

you get politicians' attention.

And here we have a serious problem:

America is addicted to oil.

I call all this a potential coalition

between the tree-huggers,

the do-gooders, the sod-busters,

the cheap-hawks and the evangelicals.

That's a pretty good-sized coalition.

We are about to enter into a world that

is truly renewable and completely clean

if we just had the willpower to implement it.

You don't have to wait for major

auto companies. You can do it yourself,

like I'm doing here.

Old cars, new cars -

doesn't really matter.

I can convert anything.

You haven't seen anything yet.

The future is going to be

very bright in this area,

and the forces are all

pushing in that direction,

both the economic

and technological forces.

Once people see these things,

they say:
"Wow, I want to do this!"

And so the word is getting out.

That gives us hope.

Hope that we can end up our lives

having achieved what we set out to do.

And we have.

And you still have so many

years you want to do things.

I wouldn't have enought time..

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Chris Paine

Chris Paine is an American filmmaker. His most notable works to date as director are the documentaries Who Killed the Electric Car? and Revenge of the Electric Car. more…

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