If You Hated Gasoline at $4 a Gallon, Imagine It at $20: Books

Presidential candidates called for a gas-tax “holiday.” Sales of SUVs plunged. Commuters rediscovered trains, buses and bikes. Americans drove 100 billion fewer miles in the 12 months through October 2008 than they did a year before.

That was just a glimpse of things to come, says Christopher Steiner in “$20 Per Gallon,” a surprisingly upbeat look at how rising gasoline prices “will change our lives for the better.”