The document discusses the history of electric vehicles and how they were produced but then destroyed to protect oil industry profits. It describes some early electric vehicles like the GM EV1 from 1996 and Nissan's Hypermini car and how these were all confiscated and destroyed by the automakers. Alternative fuel vehicles that run on hydrogen or water vapor are also mentioned but have not been widely adopted, allegedly due to lobbying efforts of oil companies to maintain reliance on petroleum and protect high oil prices.