Energy Victory ─ Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil

Congress must mandate that all new cars sold in the US be flex-fueled, and so capable of running on alcohol. Thus the oil cartel will wither away and be unable to fund terrorism, and we will win the war on terror, argues Zubrin, an aerospace engineer and author of popular science and science fiction. He includes special sections on how the Saudis control US policy, and how an alcohol economy would also defeat narco-terrorism at no extra cost to the consumer. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Robert Zubrin (Indian Hills, CO) is president of Pioneer Astronautics and also president of the Mars Society. For many years he worked as a senior engineer for Lockheed Martin. In addition, he is the author of the critically acclaimed nonfiction books The Case for Mars, Entering Space, Mars on Earth; the science fiction novels The Holy Land and First Landing; and articles in Scientific American, The New Atlantis, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Mechanical Engineering, and The American Enterprise. He has appeared on major media including CNN, CSPAN, the BBC, the Discovery Channel, NBC, ABC, and NPR.