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THERE IS A SILVER BULLET: PLUG-INS & BIOFUELS | 
 enlarge | Author: James B. Edwards
Publisher: Aventine Press
Category: Book
List Price: $10.95
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 2502949
Media: Paperback
Pages: 132
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.4
ISBN: 1593305133
Dewey Decimal Number: 531
EAN: 9781593305130
ASIN: 1593305133
Publication Date: November 28, 2007
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Product Description
There is a Silver Bullet - Plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) and Biofuels. Set America Free says we can have total energy independence in four years for around $12 billion; about the cost of conducting the Iraq War for 30 days. We are spending over $10 billion a month on imported oil. Set America Free says 50% of U.S. cars are driven 20 miles per day or fewer; a PHEV with a 20-mile electric only range would reduce fuel consumption by 85%. Gas-guzzlers can be replaced by 100mpg PHEVs. The U.S. consumes 140 billion gallons of gasoline per year; 50 million acres of switchgrass (approximately the acreage of the US soil bank) could produce enough ethanol to meet all of our fuel requirements. Switchgrass once fed tens of millions of buffalo; tomorrow it could fuel tens of millions of cars. America can drain Alaska dry and dot our coastlines with oil rigs, but we can't drill our way out of the oil mess. The Middle-East is a Mare's Nest. Biofuels and PHEVs offer America an escape route from this nightmare mad-house. We stand on the threshold of a "Golden Age of American Agriculture." Jefferson's dream will come true. America will become a nation of yeoman farmers - 21st Century Centurions!
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A Smorgasborg of Energy and Vehicle Technology Data April 23, 2008
Carl H. Middleton
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Jim Edwards, a mechanical engineer who designed and manufactured specialty cars, digests the critical data for the most likely scenarios for the future production of energy and automobiles. He heavily discounts global warming caused by human action, but he emphasizes the extreme economic and political perils for America importing two-thirds of the oil it uses. He advocates switching to producing energy from coal, oil shale, and especially bio-fuels. He evaluates the feasibility of new energy technologies. Equally, he evaluates the potential for technologies to increase the mpg of vehicles, and even to eliminate liquid fuels.
This book is a must read for investors in electric utilities, carbon fuels, railroads, chemical companies, and manufacturers of vehicles, farm machinery, and electrical equipment. It is also a must read for those interested in the politics of energy and vehicle production. Its limitation is a failure to compare nuclear energy potential with that of carbon based energy.
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