Lives Per Gallon: The True Cost of Our Oil Addiction.

From: Environmental Health Perspectives | Date: February 1, 2007| Author: Preuss, Peter W. | Copyright information

Lives Per Gallon: The True Cost of Our Oil Addiction

By Terry Tamminen

Washington, DC:Island Press, 2006, 262 pp. ISBN: 1-59726-101-7, $24.95.

Lives Per Gallon, by Terry Tamminen, is an easy and entertaining read. It tells an important story about our addiction to oil and the price we are paying to support our habit. It is clear from the very first sentence in the book that the author's heart is in the right place, and that he has the experience of...

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