Two billion cars : driving toward sustainability / Daniel Sperling, Deborah Gordon.
2009
HE5611 .S67 2009 (Mapit)
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Title
Two billion cars : driving toward sustainability / Daniel Sperling, Deborah Gordon.
Author
Sperling, Daniel.
ISBN
9780195376647 (alk. paper)
0195376641 (alk. paper)
0195376641 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Language
English
Description
xiii, 304 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
HE5611 .S67 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
388.3/42
Summary
"In Two Billion Cars, transportation experts Daniel Sperling and Deborah Gordon provide a concise history of America's love affair with cars and an overview of the global oil and auto industries. Promising advances in both transportation technology and fuel efficiency together with shifts in travel behavior, they suggest, offer us a realistic way out of our predicament."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Gordon, Deborah, 1959-
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Table of Contents
Surviving two billion cars
Beyond the gas-guzzler monoculture
Breaking Detroit's hold on energy and climate policy
In search of low-carbon fuels
Aligning big oil with the public interest
The motivated consumer
California's pioneering role
Stimulating Chinese innovation
Driving toward sustainability.
Beyond the gas-guzzler monoculture
Breaking Detroit's hold on energy and climate policy
In search of low-carbon fuels
Aligning big oil with the public interest
The motivated consumer
California's pioneering role
Stimulating Chinese innovation
Driving toward sustainability.