Christopher Steiner, Author, $20 Per Gallon

my name is christopher steiner too!!!!!

Inevitably so. The guy who thinks the price of gas won't increase because he has to have a truck to work is funny.

What a stupid dumbass...$20/gallon would be good, but the people whom live in the suburbs will go back to farming...what a stupid dumbass. Good luck kill off Walmart...

This is truly the liberal vision of what America should become. That is why this young man had such a big smile when he was describing his "doomsday" scenario while interviewed by Matt Lauer this morning. If it isn't your vision of America you had better wake up and smell the coffee because that is where the current administration has us headed! It is their "change we can believe in". No more SUVs or Walmarts,90% of Americans will not be able to own automobiles and airlines will no longer exist.

We have no "impending" oil or energy shortage especially in this country; The shortage only exists between the ears of the Greenholes. We have 100s of years of energy. Get most of the grid onto nuclear power which the Liberal exists emists have blocked for over 30 years & we will reduce our demand on the fuels we can use to drive the US until a substantial subsitution for gas-powered vehicles is developed driven by economics & the marketplace. Some of us actually work for a living & need trucks.

Sure we could power much of the nation on nuclear... but it's incredibly expensive. Same with wind and solar. Nothing, absolutely nothing, has the high energy content that sweet crude contains. And when it's gone, so is our way of life.

I promise you this is more of a problem than you realize or would like to believe.

From everything I've heard nuclear is cheap energy. Of course you have the elarge upfront costs but from there it's comparatively cheap. We have the largest coal reserves in the world that can be used additionally. Ethanol is a big racket... takes more energy to make than it provides, gunks up cars, gives us fewer miles per gallon when we fill up with this 10% ethanol-laced gas, & competes with a main staple food source; Insanity. We could probably work with hydroelectric power too & wind/solar.

I most definitely agree with ethanol, it's a ridiculous proposition... still, the biggest problem with any alternative is that the energy return to investment is much smaller than oil.

So the problem isn't a lack of energy, it's a lack of cheap energy.

Oh I definitely agree with you; & with China, Russia, & India's usage increasing it will put the squeeze on price in the short term merely because of the psychological factor alone.There still is a lot of oil out there & we can't let short term policy ruin our economy; Especially based on the theory of man-made global warming which is enjoying less & less support except among extremists & those positioned to cash in on this whole "green" movement. We also should be using our vast coal reserves.

Start with the book from kenneth deffeyes called "Hubbeert's Peak, The impending world energy shortage"