The electric car: its about time.

Just like every American, I hate filling up my car. It's painful, especially yesterday when I spent over $60 to top off my 14 mpg Ford Explorer.

My car runs just fine, but my wallet doesn't.

I want to take you back to 1995. I'm sitting restlessly in my wooden desk chair in the third grade, and my teacher hands me a science newsletter for 8-year-olds.

The headline article outlined the introduction of the electric car, which would be unveiled in California in 1997. It sounded cool, but I didn't think much of it, and I probably stuffed the newsletter in my Ninja Turtles backpack before I went home to spend my daily two hours with my Legos.

My question is - What the heck happened? Its 2008!

This article on CNET gives me another empty promise for an electric car unveiling by Audi within 10 years.

Seriously?

I haven't watched "Who Killed the Electric Car?" but I would assume that there are some good points in its script.

The point here is that the U.S. is like the college student of the international society. We haven't done our homework until it needs to be done. We procrastinate important things until we actually have no choice. I feel that the need for the electric car will come sooner than we expect, and we shouldn't be listening to the oil companies when we should be innovating and overcoming our oil-thirsty habits.

I'm not a green person. I'm not saying I shouldn't be, but I think that we need to stop being so naive about global warming and stuff. Let's do our homework and fix this damn thing.

Thanks for reading.