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The tale of corruption and manipulation that subjected the world to an oil addiction that could have been avoided, that was never necessary, and that could be ended not in ten years, not in five years, but today. Investigative journalist Black mined corporate and governmental archives to assemble thousands of previously undiscovered documents and studies into this dramatic story. He traces a continuum of rapacious energy cartels and special interests dating back from wood to coal to oil, then to the bicycle and electric battery cartels of the 1890s, which created thousands of electric…
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Editions
7 editions- Paperback · English · 2007St. Martin's Griffin · 432 pages · 9780312359089
- Audiobook · English · 2006Tantor Media · 9781400133246
- Audiobook · English · 2006Tantor Media · 9781400103249
- Other · English · 2008Dialog Press · 9780914153238
- Other · English · 2008Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the AlternativesDialog Press · 432 pages · 9780914153115
- Other · English · 2006Tantor Media · 9781400153244
Internal combustion enginesPetroleum as fuelAutomobiles, historyPower resourcesFossil fuelsKnappheitAutomobilesWirtschaft
