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Part I: Mobility and the Environment: Using Heritage and Ecological Systems Thinking to Inform Resilient Automobility Design / Barry L. Stiefel -- Bikes for Children, Cars for Adults: Postwar American Transportation Culture and the Legacy of Moving Images / James Longhurst -- E-Scooters and the Urban Micromobility Revolution / Matthew C. Swanson -- Part II: Car Cultures: "Carbolization": Cars, Carbon Emissions, and the Global Discipline of Automobility / Gordon M. Sayre -- Hydrocarbon Enslavement and Fantasies of Freedom / Patrick D. Murphy -- Suicide Machines: Bruce Springsteen, Ballard, and Broken Heroes on a Last Chance Power Drive / David LaRocca -- Remainders of the Fossil Regime: Automobility Regression in Three Post-Apocalyptic Novels / Brent Ryan Bellamy -- Part III: Film, Energy, and Climate Change: Intermodal Aesthetics and the Otherwise of Cargo / Megan Hayes and Jeff Diamanti -- Nature Guarding "Her Treasures" in Oil Comedies: The Case of Local Hero and Fubar: Balls to the Wall / Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann -- Boom/Bust: Tragic Logistics and Accelerationist Comedy in Petroleum Transport / C. Parker Krieg -- Trafficking in Petronormativities: At the Intersections of Petrofeminism, Petrocolonialism, and Petrocapitalism / Sheena Wilson.