On his Facebook Page and in his online rantings he spoke in favor of nine 9 11, prague data proisis, picture giving isis the one finger salute, yet the fbi deemed it Workplace Violence at the end of the day. Is there a Nonfiction Author or book you would like to see featured on booktv . Send us an email to booktv cspan. Org, tweet us at booktv or post on our wall facebook. Com booktv. Youre watching booktv. Next, Levi Tillemann in conversation with Energy Expert Daniel Yergin looks at the 2 trillion Global Automotive industry and the competition between the u. S. Japan and china to create the car of the future
There are stacks outside if anybody gets hungry here. Are you ready . High, everybody. Im daniel yergin, director of new america and im pleased to welcome you to this discussion today on the electric car. And also very happy to welcome the viewers on cspan2 our discussion. We are going to be talking about a terrific book today called the great race by levi tillemann. Its a very timely book. This is really the fourth time that the electric car has appeared on the scene and the first time was when Thomas Edison was a great proponent of the electric car and spend 1 million in the dollars of that day which would be many millions of dollars to date over a very continued trying to develop it. He promised the head of the biggest electric Utility Company in america that he was going to give them lots and lots what a great market would be. It didnt work out. There were two more episodes and then finally we are here today. It is challenging to write a book on this subject, and to write the book
For an extended list of ligs to 2012 notable book selections, visit booktvs web site, booktv. Org or our facebook page, facebook. Com booktv. Booktv continues now with diana furchtgottroth. She takes a look at president obamas Green Jobs Initiative and argues that it hurts the economy. This is about 40 minutes. Good afternoon. Im howard, Vice President for policy research at the Manhattan Institute. Thanks so much for joining us. The question of of whether and how government, particularly the federal government, directs tax dollars to specific industries was a discussion in last nights president ial debate, and can its become an important and ongoing theme in the current president ial campaign. The terms on which washington assisted the finance and Auto Industries have also been the focus of intense debate, but probably the most contentious example of all is the one on which diana furchtgottroth, Manhattan Institutes senior fellow and our speaker this afternoon, focuses in her timely a
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
Host our conversation continues, looking at cushing oklahoma, and the role it plays in the oil industry. We want to go up to new york now, where Daniel Yergin is joining us. He is the author of both the quest, and the prize. You have been to cushing oklahoma. How would you describe it . Guest you see all of the tanks, and it is quiet, and you have the oil moving at the stately rate of four miles per hour. It is very calm, yet you realize it is one of the notable points in the oil industry, and we see on the reports of what the oil price was, it all goes back to cushing, which has been a great gathering point, really, for about a century now. Host why does it all go back to cushing . Guest there was an oil field discovered there before the First World War and it was called the queen of the oil fields, and at one point it provided 22 of the u. S. Total oil, and a lot of the oil produced by the u. S. Army in europe was made in cushing oklahoma, and the oil system was old, but the Pipeline