Author and investigative journalist Edwin Black speaks with David Room in September 2007 about the corporate forces that have for more than a century sabotaged the creation of alternative energies and vehicles in order to keep us dependent on oil. He speaks of the beginnings of electric cars around the turn of the 20th century and the ultimate ascendancy of the internal combustion engine. He also discusses how GM and several other corporations conspired to dismantle electric streetcar systems throughout the United States and his Green Fleet concept.

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