EDWIN BLACK ON THE OIL ADDICTION CORPORATE CRIME CONNECTION
WASHINGTON, D.C., NOVEMBER 10, 2006

From http://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/

Over 100 years ago, all of the cars in America were electric cars.

In the 1930s, a criminal conspiracy by General Motors, the oil and tire companies – destroyed the nation’s electric trolley system.

Thomas Edison and Henry Ford collaborated to replace Ford’s internal combustion engine with lighter weight electric cars – but at the moment of truth, someone sabotaged Edison’s batteries and torched his laboratory in Orange, New Jersey.

Edwin Black, author of a number of best selling books including IBM and the Holocaust, now claims that our addiction to oil is due in part to corporate crime and collusion.

In a new book, Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed Alternatives (St. Martins Press, 2006), Black documents a little known history of how we ended up in our energy pickle.

Black is a committed anti-Nazi who has dedicated much of his work to exposing the hidden history of how U.S. corporations – including IBM and General Motors – propped up the Nazi regime.

That’s why it comes as a surprise that one hero of Black’s new book is Henry Ford.

“Ford is a hero in this book,” Black said in a recent interview with Corporate Crime Reporter. “Not a hero that I necessarily like, because right after the time frame of this book, Ford became the biggest anti-Semite in the world.”