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Filmmaker Chris Payne explores the many factors that played into the ultimate failure of the electric car to catch on with consumers, even as gas prices began to skyrocket, in a thoughtful meditation on the increasingly important role that renewable energy plays in modern society. Introduced as a means of providing an alternative to increasing oil consumption and reducing pollution in 1996, the electric car was all but a forgotten memory only a decade later -- but why? Through interviews with consumer advocacy experts, automotive industry experts, and oil industry heavyweights, Payne paints a though-provoking picture of a culture whose aversion to change and reliance on dwindling resources may be rooted in the financial concerns of a wealthy few, and may also be leading consumers down a troubling path.
Original Release
06/28/2006
US Release
06/28/2006
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Martin Sheen | Narrator |
Reverend Gadget | Self |
Dave Barthmuss | Self |
Ed Begley Jr. | Self |
Jim Boyd | Self |
Alec N. Brooks | Self |
Alan Cocconi | Self |
John R. Dabels | Self |
Phyllis Diller | Self |
Colette Divine | Self |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Martin Sheen | Narrator |
Reverend Gadget | Self |
Dave Barthmuss | Self |
Ed Begley Jr. | Self |
Jim Boyd | Self |
Alec N. Brooks | Self |
Alan Cocconi | Self |
John R. Dabels | Self |
Phyllis Diller | Self |
Colette Divine | Self |
Tom Everhart | Self |
David Freeman | Self |
Frank Gaffney | Self |
Mel Gibson | Himself / Self |
Greg Hanssen | Self |
Peter Horton | Self |
Leslie Kendall | Self |
Doug Korthof | Self |
Alan C. Lloyd | Self |
Alan S. Lowenthal | Self |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Dean Devlin | Executive Producer |
Kearie Peak | Executive Producer |
Marc Roskin | Executive Producer |
Richard D. Titus | Executive Producer |
Václav Beránek | Executive Producer |
Natalie Artin | Producer |
Jessie Deeter | Producer |
Alex Gibney | Producer |
Rachel Olschan | Producer |
Jason Saville | Producer |
Jeff Steele | Producer |
Kathy Weiss | Producer |