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Table of contents :
Cover......Page 1
Copyright page......Page 8
Contents......Page 11
Introduction: The Great Awakening......Page 15
The Real Trouble with Cars......Page 17
The Next American Revolution......Page 20
Part I: Highway Robbery......Page 27
1 The Terrible Twins......Page 29
Ripe for Revolution......Page 31
Beyond Baroque......Page 35
Heading for Divorce......Page 36
Automobiles, the Love Affair of the Century......Page 39
The Asphalt Age......Page 42
The Green Backlash......Page 45
The Rope-a-Dope......Page 46
What's Good for GM May Be Bad for America......Page 48
Carbon Nation......Page 51
2 Down and Out in Detroit......Page 53
Chrysler Crumbles......Page 58
Changing Game Means Changing Gear......Page 62
How Ford Flunked......Page 68
The General's Decline and Fall......Page 74
3 Big Oil in Big Trouble......Page 82
The Bottomless Beer Mug......Page 85
Big Oil in Big Trouble......Page 89
Running to Stand Still......Page 90
The Age of Asymmetric Warfare......Page 92
The Anti-OPEC?......Page 94
The Coming Shakeout......Page 96
Fighting Back......Page 98
The Bottomless Well......Page 100
A New Age of Discovery......Page 103
The Spirit of Spindletop......Page 105
The Central Bank of Oil......Page 107
Innovate or Die......Page 109
Concentration, not Scarcity......Page 114
Part II: Can Dinosaurs Dance?......Page 117
4 The Parable of the Prius......Page 119
Blame a Cruel World......Page 125
Toyota: Made in the USA......Page 132
Beyond Henry Ford......Page 135
A Toyota Way......Page 142
Here's to You, Mrs. Jones......Page 146
The Prius as Parable......Page 149
5 The Axis of Oil......Page 153
Don't Mention the "O" Word......Page 155
The Paradox of Plenty......Page 157
No Taxation Without Representation......Page 159
The Devil's Excrement......Page 163
What If?......Page 165
A Witch's Brew......Page 171
6 The Slumbering Giant Awakes......Page 176
After the Storm......Page 180
While Rome Burns.........Page 184
Washington's Oil Curse......Page 187
CAFE Culture......Page 189
It's Not Easy Being Green......Page 190
How Green Is Browne?......Page 193
Beyond Hype......Page 196
Dancing with Dinosaurs......Page 201
End of the Oil Age......Page 203
Part III: Manifold Destiny......Page 205
7 Crouching Tiger, Leaping Dragon......Page 207
How Many Planets?......Page 209
Demography Is Not Destiny......Page 211
The Key Is Carbon......Page 215
Oiling the Wheels......Page 219
The Next Detroit......Page 221
The Cure from Curitiba......Page 224
3–D Vision: Develop-Despoil-Detox......Page 226
The Twenty-First-Century Detroit......Page 228
A Great Leap Forward......Page 233
A Particular Problem......Page 237
No Free Lunch......Page 240
Goldemberg's Sweet Victory......Page 248
8 The Juice and the Jalopy......Page 252
Gentlemen, Start Your Engines......Page 257
Reduced Dependency or Risky Dead End?......Page 259
The Biofuels Bandwagon......Page 263
Leapfrogging Out of Big Oil's Tentacles......Page 265
The Great Green Hope......Page 267
The Power of Price......Page 270
Manufacturing Gasoline......Page 272
Electrifying the Jalopy......Page 276
So How Does the Mojo Work?......Page 279
Plugging Into the Future......Page 282
Who Revived the Electric Car?......Page 284
Hype or Hypercar?......Page 286
Of Fuel Cells and Fallacies......Page 292
The Race Is On!......Page 296
9 A Call to Arms......Page 300
Arnie's Green Brain......Page 303
The Great Awakening......Page 310
Austin Power......Page 315
The Petro-Pragmatists and the Moon-Shooters......Page 316
The Real Cost of Oil......Page 320
Level the Playing Field......Page 325
3 Leave it to the market to pick the winners......Page 329
5 Individual action is the essential catalyst for change......Page 330
A Call to Arms......Page 331
Bibliography......Page 335
A......Page 341
C......Page 342
D......Page 343
F......Page 344
G......Page 345
I......Page 346
N......Page 347
P......Page 348
T......Page 349
Z......Page 350
Acknowledgments......Page 351
About the Authors......Page 353
About TWELVE......Page 355

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