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

Steiner makes provocative—and ultimately optimistic—predictions about how the rising price of gas will revolutionize our world. He projects how human behavior will accommodate incremental $2 gas price hikes from $6 to $20 and anticipates the radical changes we will make in our consumption and travel habits. John Wolfe delivers a competent reading, imparting a wealth of data with a steady emphasis, timing and projection that inflect the major points of a text well enough for listeners to distinguish what is relevant. A Grand Central hardcover (Reviews, May 25). (Aug.)