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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86110050 Title: Zoom : the global race to fuel the car of the future Author: Iain Carson; Vijay V Vaitheeswaran Publisher: New York : Twelve, 2007. ISBN/ISSN: 9780446580045 044658004X OCLC:86110050

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Zoom : the global race to fuel the car of the future

Author:	Iain Carson; Vijay V Vaitheeswaran
Publisher:	New York : Twelve, 2007.
Edition/Format:	Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
Summary:	Reveals that the auto and oil industries are at a pivotal crossroads and have shaped domestic capitalism and the international landscape to create both progress and consequence, in an account that predicts a revolution in energy use and car manufacture.
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Material Type:	Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	Iain Carson; Vijay V Vaitheeswaran Find more information about:
ISBN:	9780446580045 044658004X
OCLC Number:	86110050
Description:	viii, 336 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents:	Introduction : The great awakening : oil is the problem ; cars are the solution -- pt. 1. Highway robbery -- ch. 1. The terrible twins : cars and oil wrote the history of twentieth-century American capitalism -- ch. 2. Down and out in Detroit : how the car industry, the icon of American greatness in the last century, lost its way -- ch. 3. Big oil in big trouble : the world is not running out of oil, but America's oil giants are in trouble even so -- pt. 2. Can dinosaurs dance? -- ch. 4. The parable of the Prius : how Toyota's culture propelled the once-provincial carmaker past GM to number one -- ch. 5. The axis of oil : oil's geopolitical complications arise from America's bipartisan addiction to oil -- ch. 6. The slumbering giant awakes : the great awakening of America to the dangers of oil addiction and global warming is pushing corporations to act - but can big business really solve the problem? -- pt. 3. Manifold destiny -- ch. 7. Crouching tiger, leaping dragon : Asia's rise could save, rather than destroy, the planet -- ch .8. The juice and the jalopy : the same anarchic, amazing forces that brought us the Internet and telecom revolutions are now racing to develop the clean fuels and smart cars of tomorrow -- ch. 9. A call to arms : a grass-roots movement sweeping across America promises to overturn Washington's oil curse - and level the playing field for clean energy and the car of the future -- Bibliography -- Index.
Responsibility:	Iain Carson and Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran.
More information:	Table of contents only Publisher description Contributor biographical information

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Reveals that the auto and oil industries are at a pivotal crossroads and have shaped domestic capitalism and the international landscape to create both progress and consequence, in an account that predicts a revolution in energy use and car manufacture.

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