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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... President George Washington in 1789. This is the first official National Thanksgiving in the United States.”2 1798 National Fasting and Prayer Proclamation - “President John Adams issued a national fasting and prayer proclamation on ...
... President Lincoln. Bringing such a respected champion reformer into their perspective camp, can only help to ... presidents in American history. So which is it? Did he believe in Christianity one day and the next in a secular world view ...
... President Lincoln and other Godly Presidents. However because of the hatred from the Civil War in our war torn nation, Lincoln may have been the most targeted president for assassination in our history. The next thing that happened to ...
... President Johnson was quoted as saying, “as long as I am president, it shall be a government for white men.”11 After the Civil War the South was extremely defiant about giving blacks the rights that had been won from the conflict ...
... president the authority to declare martial law where there was severe disorder. Yet, despite severe disorder ... president's private secretary, Orville E. Babcock, was implicated for swindling the government out of millions in liquor ...