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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... Creating a Manchurian Candidate 356 Catastrophes Help Politicians' Approval Ratings and Galvanize Power 358 19 ... Created by the Grand Mufti 390 Results of the Oslo Peace 392 Iraq Sanctions and Bombings 392 Monicagate 393 Clinton ...
... created a church-state religion. People who spoke against this church-state religion were persecuted. So the pilgrims left England for Holland. They stayed in Holland eleven to twelve years. Holland was very secular and the pilgrims ...
... created a new form of government are revered? If they were alive today, I think they would say read your bible, for there is much to be gained. In fact, that is precisely what Ben Franklin did say, despite probably being one of the ...
... created equal” and endowed with “unalienable rights by their Creator”. However, this was the very same nation that had enslaved an entire class of people. This nation was committing the very acts that David had committed; murder, rape ...
... construction began in Chicago on William Jenney's ten-story Home Insurance Company with a steel skeleton, marking the birth of the skyscraper.15 In the final parallel we notice that Solomon created a 21 Chapter 4 - A Prosperous Nation.