
Internal Combustion Unabridged 13-Disc Set
Internal Combustion Unabridged 13-Disc AUDIO BOOK CD alternative energy E. Black Type: Audio Book Platform: Audio CD Publisher: Tantor Released: 2012 Media: CD INTERNAL COMBUSTION UNABRIDGED 13-DISC SETHow Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the AlternativesInternal Combustion is the compelling tale of corruption and manipulation that subjected the United States and 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.Edwin Black, award-winning author of IBM and the Holocaust, 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 c