Gas prices are over $4 a gallon in some markets recently and headed through the roof it seems, with some analysts talking about gas heading toward $5 a gallon by the summer. As unrest across the Middle East roils the oil markets and the price of gas leaps upward, we’re all scrambling for ways to save. Some strategies we’ve heard (more…)

I’m one of those people who constantly tries to see into the future – not that I have any eerie talent for things like that. The future of energy and transportation, for example, is clear as a bell. Does anyone think we’re going to be driving Hummers in 40 years? Could a reasonable person believe there’ll be plenty of cheap oil in 2050 when the world population has increased 22% from (more…)