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THE SUN TRAP

grew up a petrolhead, in a petrolheaded world. As a teenager, I could discuss Nuvolari’s 1935 German Grand Prix win, Jim Clark’s jaw-dropping arrival at the Brickyard, Henry’s iconic 1912 twin-cam Peugeot, Ettore Bugatti, George Eyston, two-stage superchargers on the Merlin … Then I read the 1976 , which still graces my bookshelf. And came across the writings of M King Hubbert, sometime petroleum geologist, sometime professor. And realized that not only do we use fossil fuels incredibly wastefully but that — very soon in human history terms — they would

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