Is Your Tank Half Empty or Half Full?

Harry Campbell

By NICOLE BELSON GOLUBOFF, DANIEL GROSS, ALLISON ARIEFF, MICHAEL PATERNITI, ROBERT GOODMAN, ROBERT B. REICH, TOM VANDERBILT, ANNELIESE ROHRER, JAMIE LINCOLN KITMAN and KAREN KARBO

Published: June 29, 2008

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.

Pajama Life

By Nicole Belson Goluboff

Fuel for Inequality

By Robert B. Reich

What the Green Bubble Will Leave Behind

By Daniel Gross

Ghosts of the Cul de Sac

By Allison Arieff

Goodbye to the Great American Road Trip

By Michael Paterniti

Tax Brakes

By Robert Goodman

Be the Prius

By Tom Vanderbilt

Psychoanalysis by the Gallon

By Anneliese Rohrer

The Light Stuff

By Jamie Lincoln Kitman

Hair-Raiser

By Karen Karbo

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/opinion/29gasintro.html?th&emc=th