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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... Society's Concepts of Happiness and Love and Feminism's Impossible Frame of Reference _______194 Redefining the Word Love. Abortion on ...
... Society 404 Skull and Bones Initiation Rites 404 Bush Joins the National Guard 406 Bush Goes to Harvard Business School 407 Bush Returns to Midland 409 GW Becomes a Christian? 410 Business as Usual 412 GW Becomes Governor of Texas 414 ...
... society calls this type of human being a fetus. This game of semantics is played so that killing the human baby in the womb can be justified. Isn't it interesting that if a woman is intending on keeping a baby then the baby in her womb ...
... society. The issue of slavery was considered by many in the church to be a secular political issue. But there were a few in the churches that understood the absolute immorality of this and they fought against the mainstream of society ...
... society into becoming an industrial society. This transformation was greatly achieved through our alliance with Great Britain. Farm products dominated our exports and became very important to American farmers. The agricultural exports ...