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$20 Per Gallon: How the Inevitable Rise in the Price of Gasoline Will Change Our Lives for the Better
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Argues that the escalating price of gasoline will change our society for the better by making mass telecommuting a reality, eliminating cheap items made from plastic, bringing train travel to the forefront and much more. Reprint. A best-selling book.
Publishers Description
Imagine an everyday world in which the price of gasoline (and oil) continues to go up, and up, and up. Think about the immediate impact that would have on our lives.
Of course, everybody already knows how about gasoline has affected our driving habits. People can't wait to junk their gas-guzzling SUVs for a new Prius. But there are more, not-so-obvious changes on the horizon that Chris Steiner tracks brilliantly in this provocative work.
Consider the following societal changes: people who own homes in far-off suburbs will soon realize that there's no longer any market for their houses (reason: nobody wants to live too far away because it's too expensive to commute to work). Telecommuting will begin to expand rapidly. Trains will become the mode of national transportation (as it used to be) as the price of flying becomes prohibitive. Families will begin to migrate southward as the price of heating northern homes in the winter is too pricey. Cheap everyday items that are comprised of plastic will go away because of the rising price to produce them (plastic is derived from oil). And this is just the beginning of a huge and overwhelming domino effect that our way of life will undergo in the years to come.
Steiner, an engineer by training before turning to journalism, sees how this simple but constant rise in oil and gas prices will totally re-structure our lifestyle. But what may be surprising to readers is that all of these changes may not be negative - but actually will usher in some new and very promising aspects of our society.
Steiner will probe how the liberation of technology and innovation, triggered by climbing gas prices, will change our lives. The book may start as an alarmist's exercise.... but don't be misled. The future will be exhilarating. |
Item Specifications...
Pages 274
Dimensions: Length: 0.75" Width: 5.5" Height: 8"
Weight: 0.55 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Release Date Jul 16, 2010
ISBN 044654955X
EAN 9780446549554
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 | Interesting Dec 9, 2009 |
| The book is interesting, but probably played better last summer with the high gas prices, and might be more relevant as prices start to creep up again. It seems to me engines will just become more efficient to deal with the higher prices instead of a complete change in society, but who knows. | | |  | Inconsistent dreaming Dec 9, 2009 |
I am in complete agreement that gas is going to get a lot more expensive and that society is going to have to change. However, the author's rant is inconsistent and unlikely to convince anyone who doesn't already hold his viewpoint. In one chapter, he claims that UPS will flourish. Later, he claims that almost everything will be produced locally. He asserts that air travel will become much less common, but doesn't discuss real dollar prices much different from those before airline deregulation. Yes, we flew less, but it wasn't completely out of reach. These sorts of apparent contradictions abound. The worst is that he discusses other technologies but completely discounts the option that additional options to fossil fuels will be developed. Alternately, if nuclear power becomes as accepted as he suggests at the end of the book, electric power could be used instead of fossil fuels.
Furthermore, as another reviewer points out, the author largely ignores the rest of the world where gas is generally much more expensive than in the US. Much of Europe already has the type of society the author envisions. Oil is a world commodity, and the rest of the world should be discussed.
The whole book comes across as a Utopian Fantasy rather than a practical discussion of what problems we need to start solving now. The author completely ignores the economic upheavals which would be created by transitioning to his imagined world. I tend to agree that his Fantasy sounds pretty good. But how do we actually get there from here? I am very disappointed in this book. | | | | Interesting but flawed. Dec 6, 2009 |
Provides plenty of food for thought but individual chapters should be read with skepticism.
Contains unsubstantiated assumptions and some significant factual errors. | | |  | A realistic glimpse of our future Nov 27, 2009 |
| This is a "what if" book and it does it as well as any I have seen. We all know that the current price of gas can't last but we rarely think of the implications for our lives if the price should rise to $4, $6, $8 and beyond. This book explores those possibilities and discusses how the changes will be difficult but that the results will be better for all. It is a book that ought to be read by every politician (local, state and federal), every CEO and every citizen. | | | | This book strikes the perfect chord on this subject. Not too alarmist. Not too glib. Nov 20, 2009 |
I loved how far the book ranged, how it touches on all of the things that the price of gasoline affects. It's truly amazing how our world will be changed as the price of gas goes up.
The author points out that many of the changes coming won't be comfortable ones. But they'll be far more comfortable if we prepare NOW. I found the food sections to be especially interesting. I'll never think of sushi or fish the same ever again.
I've begun to rethink everything I do, everything my family does. How many of our habits, our vacations, our ways-of-life are sustainable?
Overall, this book was very well written, easily digestible and intensely interesting. Definitely my favorite within the genre. | | | Write your own review about $20 Per Gallon: How the Inevitable Rise in the Price of Gasoline Will Change Our Lives for the Better
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