We’ve all seen those little electric cars parked on many city streets. Well, most of us have, anyway. At least the greater majority of us who live in populated U.S. cities have, especially those of the larger variety. Speculatively, electric cars will soon become the latest craze. They are already starting to show face, and here’s why:
Gasoline is understood as “commodity,” even though it does not entirely fit the definition. In many regards, not even close. It is controlled politically, by companies and C.E.O.s. Supply and Demand should dictate the value and, therefore, the cost of gasoline — or at least that is what the oil companies right alongside the U.S. government agencies keep trying to persuade us. Not so. If this commodity were truly a commodity, then it would adhere to the complete scale of a commodity’s free-market implementation of rules.
For one, the competition is and has always been slanted as a competitive market. This is a no-go for any commodity; competition must be conversely equal, whatever sense comes from that paradox, or at least any equality should be found within this regulated conundrum of equal differences. A genuine free market commodity should be exactly that and abide by the rules of a “Free-Market,” which gasoline has never. A free-market maintains transposable and mutual specifications and principles; this means that suppliers must adhere to an identical set of prices and standards. This only loosely holds true, in the case of gasoline, though it is really regulated by whomever puts up the most cash. Thus, this ill-defined commodity does not conform to or follow an exact set of rules.
Due to the outrageously unpredictable rise and fall of recent gas prices within this five years, we are left to deduce that this wavering market will again rise and fall, and within a relatively short time span — definitely as recent as the next US republican president who also owns an abundance of stock in oil and knows how to tamper with and politically control this disillusioned free-market commodity (just like “puppet master” George Dubya did).
Getting back to this upcoming craze of electric cars — at least by those of us who live in the nation’s more populated cities — this will be what puts the United States car industry back on the map. Already, we have distributors like Chico Electric Cars. They have electric sedans (the Zap “Xebra Sedans”), electric trucks (Zap “Xebra Trucks”), an array of electric scooters (of the “Zapino” line of products), mopeds from the X-treme product line of Chico Electric mopeds and scooters, along with more…
Here’s a link to the broad array of Chico Electric Cars:
www.chicoelectriccars.com
Then we have the Zap! Electric Cars line of electric vehicles — cars, trucks, scooters, bikes, all noted above, and even all terrain vehicles (the “Zap Dude Electric ATV”), which have a brilliant take on Global Marketing — ZAP stands for Zero Air Pollution. There’s not doubt that ZAP Manufacturing, Inc. has tapped into the future already.
Here’s the link to Zap Electric Cars:
www.zapworld.com
Here we find even mini-vans with the “ElectricCars Advanced Automotive Technologies”: http://electriccars.com/main.cfm
And low and behold, even Chevrolet has a line of electric cars (Chevy Volt): www.chevrolet.com/electriccar/
Then we have the Canadian ZENN (Zero Emission No Noise) Motor Company: www.zenncars.com
There are others, no doubt, and more coming up by the day. This will be the future of inner-city travel; that’s where to invest. Moreover, this will be what will put oil companies in check and make them crave a bit of demand for quite an overbearing stock. When the masses of travelers no longer depend on gasoline and oil to get around, then the battle will be between commercial and industrial companies or corporations and oil companies. These are the U.S. car industries that will survive.
B David Ferrel
More on the Electric Car:
History of the electric car: 1828 - 1912, from Trouve to Morrison
From the XP-883 to the Volt: analysis and history of the electric car
For more extensive research on the topic , Paul A. Hughes has published an excellent article here:
A History of Early Electric Cars [http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/6111/electcar.htm]
Copyright 1996 Paul A. Hughes
Last updated September 1996. For more information, write Aggie80@aol.com.geovisit();
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