Energy victory : winning the war on terror by breaking free of oil / Robert Zubrin.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-313) and index.

Ch. 1. Energy Independence within a Decade -- Ch. 2. Terrorism: Your Gas Dollars at Work (Part 1) -- Ch. 3. Corrupting Washington: Your Gas Dollars at Work (Part 2) -- Focus Section: Saudi Interventions into US Policy -- Ch. 4. How to Destroy OPEC -- Ch. 5. Changing the Energy Trump Suit -- Ch. 6. The Technology to Break OPEC's Chains -- Ch. 7. The Charlatans Strike Back: The Hydrogen and Pimentel Hoaxes -- Ch. 8. The New Alcohol Economy and World Development -- Focus Section: Alcohol Alchemy -- Ch. 9. The Brazilian Experience -- Focus Section: The Alcohol Economy versus Narcoterrorism -- Ch. 10. Defeating Global Warming -- Ch. 11. Empowering the Future -- Ch. 12. Oil and Power -- Ch. 13. Energy and Statecraft.

"In Energy Victory, world-renowned engineer and best-selling author Robert Zubrin exposes the scandalous state of energy affairs in America, and the political fakers and scientific charlatans who have for decades done little except to distract the public from truly practical alternatives to petroleum with shams and delusions: Hydrogen cars? They'd be impossible to fuel cost effectively. Conservation? It's a failing strategy so long as the enemy controls the fuel supply." "Zubrin's plan for energy victory is straightforward and practical. He argues that if Congress passed a law requiring that all new cars sold in the United States be flex-fueled - that is, able to run on any combination of gasoline or alcohol fuels - this one action would destroy the vertical monopoly that the oil cartel has maintained on the globe's transportation fuel supply. Within three years of enactment, 50 million cars capable of running on high-alcohol fuels could be on US roads, and at least an equal number overseas, stopping future petroleum price extortion by opening the fuel market up to competition from ethanol and methanol produced by farmers worldwide." "Instead of sending our fuel dollars as tribute to countries with ties to terrorism, we could be using them to help agriculture here and abroad, boosting our own economy and funding world development. Furthermore, by switching to alcohol fuels, which pollute less than gasoline and are made from plants that draw carbon dioxide from the air, this plan would facilitate the worldwide economic growth required to eliminate global poverty without the fear of greenhouse warming."--BOOK JACKET.