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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... terrorist organization known as the “Symbionese Liberation Army,” which had kidnapped Patty Hearst. And in fact she was still working for the FBI when she fired her stan- dard police-issued .38 Smith and Wesson at the President that day ...
... terrorists . Then the newly released terrorists would be tried under civil jurisdiction . These trials were then used as a platform for agitation and propaganda . The trials were staged to demonstrate the political faith of the ruling ...
... terrorist training camps and ulti- mately the CIA-created Osama bin Laden. The one thing that Carter is credited with accomplishing was the Camp David accords; although he may not have accomplished anything at all. PBS's Charlie Rose ...
... terrorist units in the world.75 They were supposed to meet at two rendezvous points in the dessert and then on to Tehran , but the mission turned into a miserable failure and had 239 Chapter 14 – Carter's Malaise and the Insiders.
... terrorists. They used a method called a “web”. Whereby the calls would be traced from known terrorists and then from there follow the calls outward in or- der to identify other participating parties.5 Let's use the intelligence ...