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$20 Per Gallon: How the Inevitable Rise in the Price of Gasoline Will Change Our Lives for the Better

Christopher Steiner

Hardcover | Pages: 275 pages

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Title	:	$20 Per Gallon: How the Inevitable Rise in the Price of Gasoline Will Change Our Lives for the Better
Author	:	Christopher Steiner
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 275 pages
Published	:	July 1st 2009 by Grand Central Publishing (first published July 31st 2007)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Economics. Environment. Sustainability. Peak Oil. Transport. Politics

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Pretty interesting read. I have two complaints. The world he foresees is way too good. For example, the suburbs are emptied out and people just move to the city. It's not like there's any potential for conflict there! Also, by necessity, his predictions will be very wrong. Mostly because he really can't predict the future of gasoline. If gas takes 20 years to go to $6/gallon, the entire course of his mapped-out future will be altered due to the different level of technology available at the time. Similarly, if the precipitous rise begins in earnest and goes quickly. Say to $20 in 10 years, the technological changes he sees as necessary will not have time to happen. Therefore, this is more of a "possible" future book given a certain set of assumptions on when and at what rate energy prices will begin to rise.

All that said, I think many of his predictions (such as we'll stop wasting oil on plastics and move to plant-based plastics) are true in a general sense.

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Original Title:	$20 Per Gallon: How the Rising Cost of Gasoline Will Radically Change Our Lives
ISBN:	0446549541 (ISBN13: 9780446549547)
Edition Language:	English

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"$20 Per Gallon" is a nonfiction book written by Christopher Steiner. It covers the topic of rising gas prices and its effects, culminating in the titular $20 per gallon future. The author systematically analyzes what would happen in various industries at various gas price increases. The book is divided both by the different gas prices ($4 per gallon, $6 per gallon, then eventually $20) and by different industries affected (auto manufacturers, Amtrak, and so on). Steiner systematically goes

The entire book can be summarised as follows:"I predict that gasoline will reach the price of $20 per gallon even though gas prices are notoriously unpredictable, because we have to start running out of oil at some point. Now let me spend the remaining 99.5% of the book speculating wildly about what society will be like when it does, even though humans are extremely bad at making any predictions about the future."While it was interesting to get a feel for how much we rely on oil, it's hard to

The positive effect on road safety is mentioned early on: higher gas prices take many of the most dangerous vehicles off the road earliest.The book has some interesting anecdotes and isolated economic speculation, but the worst part is that it doesn't attempt to analyze the effects based on the rate at which the price of gas might rise. There is just a single paragraph that mentions different possibilities for timing. Obviously if oil were to quadruple in price over a year it's not going to be

Christopher Steiner's book "$20 Per Gallon" reads almost like really good science-fiction.It starts with the premise that we've reached peak oil production (True.) and that we're not even close to peak demand because China and Africa are finally getting around to developing (True.), and that gas prices will go up pretty drastically when we reach peak demand (True, again.)Steiner, a writer for "Forbes," looks at the likely consequences of the increases in chapters cleverly numbered with the

A thought-provoking book. Our lives will be better with higher energy prices. The inevitable higher gasoline prices are, obviously, not here yet. This is our chance to implement a serious gas tax. My personal choice is an increase, in the gas tax, of ten cents per month for five years. (After one year, the gas tax would be $1.20 higher. After five years, the gas tax would be $6 higher.) People would know what is coming, and have (some) time to adjust.Please spare me the species argument about

I loved the concept of this book - How the world and society will change based on increasing the price of oil from $4 to $20. However, I was a bit disappointed in that his social desires (which I share) overshowed good research on some ideas. See my blog entry on this book...http://sustainablesupplychain.blogspo...

This was not the usual sort of read for me. I was drawn to it by the title. The book was slower reading for me than my romance novels, but I kept with it and finished reading it. I think this book was well thought out, well written and was wrapped up well with the epilogue at the end. The studies being done in the United States, and other Countries are studies I was not aware of, so I learned a lot. The author put a lot of work into this piece, and it became very apparant that our United States