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Interesting and engaging. * The Big Issue * It's well researched and readable. * Geoff Ward, Western Daily Press *

It's well researched and readable. Geoff Ward, Western Daily Press Interesting and engaging. The Big Issue

Authoritatively prescriptive. --Tom Vanderbilt, Wilson Quarterly An urgent wake-up call ...The authors have laid out a blueprint the entire world can use. --Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (from the Foreword) In this insightful and persuasive book, Sperling and Gordon highlight one of the biggest environmental challenges of this century: two billion cars. They rightly contend that we cannot avert the worst of global warming without making our cars cleaner and petroleum-free. Luckily the authors also offer a roadmap for navigating this problem that is both visionary and achievable. --Frances Beinecke, President, Natural Resources Defense Council The future of mobility should concern every citizen and government official. We have to tackle this together, but weve not been good at it, except in crisis. Now is the time to move forward. Two Billion Cars provides inspiration and a compelling pathway. --John D. Hofmeister, Former President, Shell Oil company, and Founder and CEO, Citizens for Affordable Energy The authors make a compelling and urgent fact-based case that we must quickly expand the universe of affordable, low-impact transportation options if we are to survive the doubling of the worlds cars. They show how a combination of leadership, smart policy, the unleashing of a can-do technological revolution, and carefully understanding consumer motivations will save the day. It's a must-read for anyone eager to be part of the solution. --Kevin Knobloch, President, Union of Concerned Scientists Provocative and pleasurable, far-seeing and refreshing, fact-based and yet a page-turner, global in scope but rooted in real places. The authors make a convincing case that smart consumers driving smart electric-drive cars can find the critical path to a safer planet. --Robert Socolow, Princeton University This book provides with considerable objectivity and foresight an analysis of the unsustainable pattern of transportation that human society has become accustomedindeed addictedto. In very simple terms the authors deal with the profound issues arising from the growing human desire for locomotion and mobility. --R.K. Pachauri, Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change This is a very important, realistic and highly readable book on the currently unsustainable world auto monoculture and its needed changes by two leading transportation researchers. --CHOICE

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Daniel Sperling is Professor of Engineering and Environmental Science & Policy at the University of California, Davis, and Founding Director of UC-Davis's Institute of Transportation Studies. He also serves on the California Air Resources Board. Deborah Gordon is a senior transportation policy consultant who has worked with the National Commission on Energy Policy, the California Energy Commission, International Council for Clean Transportation, and the Chinese government to develop fiscal policies for their burgeoning auto fleet. She earlier developed and directed transportation policy programs for the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the Union of Concerned Scientists.

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