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Guest it came to me, i thinki used the word karma; theres lots of bad puns in writing a book about automobiles, but karmy karma waswe had a working title, carbound, that nobody, including me, liked. And my editor asked me for a list of cars, kind of a brainstorming thing. I sent it to him. He called back and he said, were going to call it asphalt nation. and i said, oh, thats good. Wheredwhere did that come from . and he said, it was on your paper. so somehow in this list of playing with metaphors, that one surfaced and that was the title of the book. Cspan whats the point of your book . Guest the subtitle, how the automobile took over america and how we can take it back, which they came up with, but i thought it was kind of rinkydink. But its been very helpful. If somebody says, whats your book about . and its how the automobile took over america, how the servant became a master and how we can alter that relationship, end automobile dependency. Cspan has anybody ever been successful i ....
In the year 1900, automobile sales in the United States were divided almost evenly among three types of vehicles: automakers sold about 1,000 cars powered by internal combustion engines, but over 1,600 powered by steam engines, and almost as many by batteries and electric motors. Throughout all of living memory (at least until the very… ....
Historically, Summit Avenue was more about socializing than speed, a place to "be seen," to hang out and to converse. Wouldn't an upgraded off-road bike trail serve that sense of place? ....