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A Certain Bicyclist:
AN OFF-BEAT GUIDE TO THE POST-PETROLEUM AGE
Paul Niquette
Copyright © 1985 by Paul Niquette.  All rights reserved.
Library of Congress Card Number 85-062349
ISBN 0-912593-04-0

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Prologue
Acknowledments
Table of Contents
Virtuous Invention

 1. Bicycling Out of the Past
Inches
Pants
Gifts
Auto-Way
Liberation
Harmony

 2. Cultural Evolution
Gene Reserve
Cold
Culture

 3. Bicycling Today-Some Problems
Kids
Bussing Issue
Lines
Smile
Signals
Dichotomy
On Being Passed
Macho Van
Enemy
Enjoy

 4. Bicycling Today-Some Opportunities
Bumps
Dumb
Joggist
Parking
Pie
Work-for-All
Pot-Hole
Bonus
Subjective Speed

  5. The Petroleum Age and the Automobile
That's the Way it Is
Economic Speed
Gallon
Life-Time
Time Saved
Efficiency Champion
Dynamic Range
Folk Art
Oxygen
O-L-S

 6. The Petroleum Age and Economics
Ages
Gold
Expert
Mentalities
Full Price
Salvation
Guzzling
Manageability
One-Way Street
Inurrence
Currency

 7. The Petroleum Age and Everything Else
Average
Eggs
Jet
Shuttle
Bang
Clarification
Doing Without
Extraterrestrials
 
 

 

 8. Understanding Magnitudes
Man Power
Magnitude
Action at a Distance
Illions
Natural Legislation
Supremacy of Work
Brakes
Thought Bottle
Electricity
Unbroken Law

9. Alternatives... or Myths?
Myths
Electric Car
Syn-Fuel
Water Gas
Yellowcake
Breeder
Lithium Six
Fusion

10. The Perpetual Sun
Real Problem
Tidal Feet
Water
Irrigation
Sail Ship
Sun Ship

11. Bicycling Into the Future
More or Less
Future
Malthus
Paradox
Rates of Change
Equilibrium
Mail
Experiment
Future as History

Epilogue
Just Another Star

 
 
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