Harry Campbell
High gas prices have had some obvious immediate effects on Americans: Hummer sales are down, commuting by public transit is up, airlines are charging for nonessentials, like baggage. But if $4 gas (or higher) is here to stay, we can expect our lives to change in other ways, too. The Op-Ed page asked 10 writers to reflect on the consequences — unexpected, unnoticed, unrealized, good, bad or indifferent — of really expensive fuel.
By Nicole Belson Goluboff
Fuel for Inequality
By Robert B. ReichWhat the Green Bubble Will Leave Behind
By Daniel GrossGhosts of the Cul de Sac
By Allison ArieffGoodbye to the Great American Road Trip
By Michael PaternitiTax Brakes
By Robert GoodmanBe the Prius
By Tom VanderbiltPsychoanalysis by the Gallon
By Anneliese RohrerThe Light Stuff
By Jamie Lincoln KitmanHair-Raiser
By Karen KarboSource: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/opinion/29gasintro.html?th&emc=th
