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Title: $2.25 a gallon and rising
Review: Petrol in Scotland was $8.20 (US) per gallon (US). That is the direction Deffeyes' book Hubbert's Peak leads us to expect. We are already at $2.25 a gallon here in Colorado. However, optimists keep saying that scientists will find some substitute for oil. Deffeyes must agree that they will, but the question is "at what price". I was personally involved in the Four Corners goal gasification project 30 years ago. That project was sabotaged by environmentalists. Today we have lost the 30 years of lead time on the research needed to attempt coal converesion. Deffeyes shows that that the other alternatives aren't much better. The book is well written and with some humor. However, the sobering news about the future overshadows our sense of humor.
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