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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... Federal Reserve is Born. Private Bankers Meet on Jekyll Isle to Create the Fed. Using WWI as a Catalyst to Change a Society ...
... federal government's debt to increase from $65 million to $2,800 million, much of it in negotiable securities. This influx of debt amounted to an approximate doubling of the amount of all American securities outstanding prior to 1860.25 ...
... federal income tax was levied in 1862 to help pay for the Civil War. This tax was later repealed in 1872, and then reenacted, and then in 1895 the Supreme Court struck down the use of income tax as unconstitutional.3 Later in 1913 the ...
... federal crime to interfere with civil rights and it gave the president the authority to declare martial law where there was severe disorder. Yet, despite severe disorder throughout the South, Grant only utilized this act once, in South ...
... federal property in Washington, DC.78 So why do you suppose that he has a monument in our nation's capital when no other Confederate officer is likewise honored? The answer is because he is revered among the Freemasons in America ...