num_pages: 306
description: Americans love their automobiles. More than a mode of transportation, a car provides us with freedom, social equality, and entertainment. The price we pay for our infatuation with four wheels is high. Air pollution, global climate change, energy insecurity, injury and death, and urban sprawl are fair charges against the automobile. Some suggest we abandon the automobile. This will not happen. In The Crooked Mile, journalist and author Kevin Clemens shows us a path from the present, through the challenges of depleting oil, climate change, new technologies, and uncertain infrastructure, to reach a brighter future, where we will still own and drive our beloved automobiles.
language: English
title: The Crooked Mile: Through peak oil, biofuels, hybrid cars, and global climate change to reach a brighter future