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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... August 2nd, 1776. However, the copies of the documents used for public display were ones in which there were only two signatures; John Hancock's and Charles Thomson,7 because the British had deemed this as treason and punishable by ...
... August 5, 1861, to help fund the Civil War. Later, the income tax was made fully constitutional and part of the tax structure in America with the passage of the 16th amendment in 1913. The Civil War was also a watershed moment in ...
... August 12, 1898.36 In four months of battle America had lost a total of 460 soldiers.37 The peace Treaty of Paris, signed on December 10, 1898, for all practicality dissolved the Spanish Empire. Cuba was freed yet under the auspices of ...
... August 15th, 1871 had called for three world wars. These world wars would then become the catalyst that would cause the world to accept the one world government, religion and ruler. Although the bible doesn't specifically state that ...
... August 18, 587 B.C. in the third siege of Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonian army. Exactly seventy Hebrew calendar years later (360 days/year) brings us to August 16, 518 B.C. If we begin calculating the remaining 907,200 days of ...