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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... Campaign Promises Against the Insiders and Trilateral Commission Membership ________228 How the Media is Re-writing the Carter Legacy__________________________________________231 Achievements of the Carter Presidency ...
... Campaign Paybacks________________________________________________________290 17 - The Clinton Connections________________________________________________292 Clinton's Campaign Scandals and Cultural Relativism ...
... campaign manager, Mark Hanna, a wealthy industrialist from Ohio. His political opponent in that race was William Jennings Bryan, who was one of the greatest orators of the era. Hanna reeled that McKinley was outmatched by Bryan's ...
... campaign conducted by the free press in the guise nationalized reporting. By reporting embellished or falsified graphic stories of Spanish atrocities committed by the soldiers against the Cuban citizens, Hearst and Pulitzer were able to ...
... campaigns where entire villages were burned and destroyed. Rebels were tortured and civilians were placed into concentration camps. These policies contributed to the large number of civilian casualties resulting from disease and famine ...