After seeing the film Who Killed the Electric Car, numerous suspects are presented, numerous are found guilty but in my mind, the an estimated all responsible party on behalf of its demise is me as well as you (the consumer).
Yes General Motors was evil to recall perfectly good vehicles, yes big oil tried to squash efficient battery technology, it’s true that at the end of Jimmy Carter declared that ‘America shall never import more foreign oil than we do today’  (1978), no president thereafter pursued that goal.  But when it comes down to it, it’s we the people that are to blame.
Now nearly 300 million strong, there's nothing that we as a group of people can't accomplish if we put our minds to it.  And the time has come on behalf of us to wrap our minds around zero emission, non fossil burning technology.  It exists today, it’s just not available to us today.  Unless we really desire it.
For more information, visit  http://www.pluginamerica.org/ and demand what is good on behalf of us, our country as well as the environment.