Phoenix Rising: The Rise and Fall of the American RepublicPhoenix Rising, 2008 - 600 pages In an age when the supply of gasoline to feed this modern American society has become both more expensive and more scarce questions are being pondered. Inquires like, How can a modern society scale back its dependence on gasoline as a motive source?' Are there genuine alternative power sources?' Are they the answer to a growing crisis?' Recent announcements of hybrids like those from Honda, Toyota, and Ford have really brought attention to this issue. Hybrids that use both gasoline engines and electric motors. Really, though, alternative power sources have been around for as long as the automobile has been. The battle between and among the steam car, the electric and the gas car was fought out in the first couple of decades of the twentieth century. This book explores the ins and outs of that battle. A struggle from which the gasoline car emerged completely victorious. To such an extent that steam cars and electric cars virtually disappeared from the scene for many decades. We will look over all three alternatives, exploring their advantages and disadvantages. We will also look over the obstacles to the steamers and the electrics. Barriers that still exist to a certain extent. Handicaps that caused their disappearance in the first place. |
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... Rockefeller and Kissinger Betrayed America ____________214 14 – Carter's Malaise and the Insiders__________________________________________228 15 – The Bushization f the Reagan Revolution. 16 – Bush ...
... The Rockefeller/Morgan Rivalry and Assassinations by Anarchists. McKinley's Warnings and Assassination & Czolgosz's Trial_________________________________72 8 - The Grand Illusion ...
... Rockefeller's Bid to become the First Unelected President__________________________222 How Kissinger and Haig Set Up the President. Ford Becomes President, Rockefeller Appointed as VP and ...
... Rockefeller's first oil derrick was drilled in Titusville, Pennsylvania in 1859. And on May 1, 1884 construction began in Chicago on William Jenney's ten-story Home Insurance Company with a steel skeleton, marking the birth of the ...
... Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie and Edward Harriman (railroads) so powerful.8 At this time there was great dispute between these parties as to whether the nation should go to war. Hanna's group was satisfied with the economy ...