Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the Alternatives - Couverture rigide

Black, Edwin

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ISBN 10 : 0312359071 ISBN 13 : 9780312359072

Editeur : St Martin's Press, 2006

Synopsis

Author Edwin Black has mined scores of corporate and governmental archives to assemble thousands of previously uncovered and long-forgotten documents and studies into this dramatic story. Black traces a continuum of rapacious energy cartels and special interests dating back nearly 5,000 years, from wood to coal to oil, and then to the bicycle and electric battery cartels of the 1890s, which created thousands of electric vehicles that plied American streets a century ago. But those noiseless and clean cars were scuttled by petroleum interests, despite the little-known efforts of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford to mass-produce electric cars powered by personal backyard energy stations. Black also documents how General Motors criminally conspired to undermine mass transit in dozens of cities and how Big Oil, Big Corn, and Big Coal have subverted synthetic fuels and other alternatives. The story comes full-circle to the present day oil crises, global warming and beyond. Black showcases overlooked compressed-gas, electric and hydrogen cars on the market today, as well as inexpensive all-function home energy units that could eliminate much oil usage. His eye-opening call for a Manhattan Project for immediate energy independence will help energize society to finally take action.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Edwin Black is the award-winning, " New York Times" bestselling journalist and author of five previous books, including" IBM and the Holocaust" and" War Against the Weak." He has been nominated nine times for the Pulitzer Prize, and three times for the National Book Award. "Internal Combustion" won the Harmony Green Globes Award for Best Environmental Book, the Thomas Edison award, and best nonfiction book award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors. His books have been published in fifty-six editions, in fourteen languages, in sixty-one countries, and he has appeared on scores of major news and current events TV and radio shows, worldwide including" Oprah!, " the" Today Show"," " NBC's "Dateline, " and CNN's" Wolf Blitzer Reports, "as well as numerous documentaries.

Revue de presse

"Enthralling.... By the time the author makes his final impassioned plea for a bold new solution to the world's energy crisis, he has already made his case with devastating clarity." Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)" --Published Reviews

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: St Martin's Press
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0312359071
• ISBN 13: 9780312359072
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible