$20 Per Gallon: How the Inevitable Rise in the Price of Gasoline Will Change Our Lives for the Better
by Christopher Steiner
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Author: Christopher SteinerEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-07-15
ISBN: 0446549541
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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Book Review: $10 of Indigestion
Summary: 3 Stars
Having been a confirmed "Peak Oil" person for years, I bought this book to see what changes are likely to occur in our economy in response to rising oil prices. I liked how the author structured his book in $2 chapters - life at $4/gallon gas, $6, $8, and so on. Smaller cars, hybrid cars, more public transportation, less imported produce, and so forth, step by $2 step.
But as I continued to read, I liked the book less and less because of two serious problems.
First, the author seemed to be gloating over his predicted disruptions. He seems happy when he writes that the airline industry will cease to exist and there'll be no imported oranges in winter. He cares not a bit for the people who would be hurt by those changes - consumers and employees.
Second, other than predicting more electric cars and high-speed rail, he has nothing positive in the book. The greatness of this country is that it always finds solutions to problems. Here the author describes the destruction of this and the demise of that, without bothering to comment of what might arise in their place.
The first great energy crisis in America occurred a century ago when the falling population of whales in the Atlantic reduced the supply of whale oil - the essential energy source of that era. We have overcome that problem, haven't we?
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