After the oil rush.

• Author: Doherty, Brian
• Position: Briefly Noted - Neil Young on alternative fuel vehicles - Brief article

In his second volume of memoirs, Special Deluxe (Blue Rider), rocker Neil Young focuses on the many cars he's owned. His recent obsession was a '59 Lincoln Continental he converted to electric, the "Lincvolt." He worked on it for years, dumped piles of cash into the project, and he's honest about the limitations of the results. (The car eventually caught fire due to human error.) Young grapples with the dilemma of the global warming-minded car fiend: how to reconcile the automobile's freedom and joy with the threat he thinks it poses to the planet's ecology?

Young recognizes electric cars won't catch on...