Who Killed the Electric Car? Part one.

Today in Chemistry class we had to watch the video Who Killed the Electric Car? This is a movie about General Motor's experimental electric car and why they took it away. As the time slowly passed I found myself sitting, frustrated and in pain that I had to watch this video. I honestly do not know why I felt this way, the concept of the movie was good and it wasn't uninteresting or anything but it just pained me to watch it. I think it is because this electric car seemed to cast a spell over it's owners, when the car was taken away from it's owner(s) they went nuts. I mean I defianetly would be upset if someone took away such a great thing from me so easily but it was just ridiculous to see these people get so attached to a car. If they really cared about the environment so much they could take the bus or walk instead of driving a car. But these people seemed to have a very passionate love for this car, THEY EVEN HAD A FUNERAL FOR THEIR CARS. That is kind of very ridiculous. Maybe people do have funerals for their cars, but I mean probably for cars that they have had a majority of their lifetime and cars that they have grown old with, but see these people only had their electric cars for a couple years. It is amazing now days how attached people can get to materialistic items. I mean I am not saying it is bad to become attached to material items because I most certainly am, but I have found that they can only give me temporary satisfaction. I have found that I have bought (or perhaps will buy) things to try to find satisfaction in things that can not give it to me. The things that I really want can't be bought or are not materialistic, so in the mean time I try to find happiness in material items. I really don't know what I can do about this, but I need to find a way to start wanting what I have and try to have self control over the things I want but don't necessarily need.