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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... Germany. Hitler had “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” issued to every soldier in the German army, which definitively stated, “God is dead.”4 Karl Marx is another philosopher whose foundational beliefs were influenced by these ideologies. Out of ...
... Germany. But for now we are reviewing how Religious Pluralism began to infect the U.S. There were so many things occurring at this time period in the U.S. that it makes it very hard to point to just one over-riding issue. It was much ...
... real property ! 55 33 Bismarck , the Chancellor of Germany , prophetically expressed this exact fear after Lincoln's death . “The death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom. There 32 Chapter 5 – Sowing the Seeds of Destruction.
... Germany, origi- nally the home of the Protestant Revolution and blessed as one of the great democracies of the age, became “spoiled through vain philosophy and deceit.” (Col 2:8) They were given over by God to Nazism and Hitler, an evil ...
... Germany, where you have this incredible resource base in a commercial economy with strong nationalism, which the military was able to reach into and ramp up incredible production,' a senior defense official said.”2 As of the writing of ...