$20 Per Gallon: How Higher Gas Prices Will Change Our Lives
Chris Steiner
Tuesday, 21 Sep 2010 at 6:00 pm – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall
Chris Steiner is a civil engineer and a staff writer at Forbes magazine. He regularly writes on energy, technology and innovation. His book, $20 Per Gallon, takes readers from Manhattan tunnels to desert plane graveyards to organic farm fields, breaking down our future and its coming changes in terms of the price of gas. Before his first reporting job at the Chicago Tribune, Steiner worked as a civil-environmental engineer. He holds degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Northwestern University. Part of the Technology, Globalization & Culture Series.This lecture was taped and broadcast as part of Iowa Public Television's Intelligent Talk Television. Watch it online: click here.
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