Car Annotated Bibliography Belasco, Warren James. Americans

Car Annotated Bibliography

Belasco, Warren James. Americans on the Road, From Autocamp to Motel, 1910-1945.

Cambridge: MIT Press, 1979. Print. In this book, author Warren Belasco uses documentation such as maps, travel magazines, trade journals, and personal diaries to "look at what Americans did with their cars rather than try to judge what cars did to America" (1). He explores the history of car travel and how people would sleep at the roadsides until the creation of free municipal campsites in the 1920s. The motel industry was born, he argues, from these travelers.

Horn, Michael. "Roadmap To The Electric Car Economy." Futurist 44.2 (2010): 40-45.

Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 31 Mar. 2011. Horn works under the thesis that the electric car is an almost certainty in the near future. Besides the cleanliness and benefits to the environment, Horn points to many economic benefits of having an electric car. Among these are that the cars will never have to be refueled, which will allow the United States to stop its dependence on foreign oil. "It's an economy that provides everyone, businesses and individuals alike, with hundreds of billions of dollars to spend on other things besides the oil they formerly imported to make gasoline" (43).

Kay, Jane Holtz. Asphalt Nation, How the Automobile Took Over America, and How We Can

Take it Back. New York City: Crown Publishers, 1997. Print. This book details how the American population has become dependent on the automobile, not only as a means of long-distance transportation, but as an integral part of American existence. Kay blames the automobile industry for having a negative effect on the natural beauty of the United States.

Minqi, Li. "Peak Oil, the Rise of China and India, and the Global Energy Crisis." Journal of Contemporary Asia 37.4 (2007): 449-471. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 28 Mar. 2011. The article discusses how China and India are having an impact on the world economy and their large populations, the first and second most populous countries in the world respectively, will affect the growing dependency on fossil fuels throughout the world. The potentially harmful effects on global warming will lead to continued declination in the production of fossil fuels.

"Should you plug in?" Consumer Reports 75.10 (2010): 48-51. Academic Search Complete.