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The terrible twins : cars and oil wrote the history of twentieth-century American capitalism

Down and out in Detroit : how the car industry, the icon of American greatness in the last century, lost its way

Big oil in big trouble : the world is not running out of oil, but America's oil giants are in trouble even so

The parable of the Prius : how Toyota's culture propelled the once-provincial carmaker past GM to number one

The axis of oil : oil's geopolitical complications arise from America's bipartisan addiction to oil

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?

Crouching tiger, leaping dragon : Asia's rise could save, rather than destroy, the planet

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

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.

Automobile industry and trade > Forecasting.

Automobiles > Research.

Automobiles > Technological innovations.

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