New Book Explores the True Cost of Americas Oil Addiction

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Published August 1, 2007 at 9:00 AM PDT

This story was published more than 17 years ago.

When we go to the gas pump to fill up, there's a price per gallon that we all see, but what about the price we don't see? We speak to an author who reveals the true costs involved in the petroleum pro

Tom Fudge: When we go to the gas pump to fill up, there's a price per gallon that we all see. Right now in San Diego it's more than $3.00 a gallon. But most people agree that the real price of our dependence on oil and gas is much greater than that. Obviously some would include the hundreds of billions of dollars we're spending to wage war and patrol the waters in the Middle East.

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Terry Tamminen, author of Lives Per Gallon: the True Cost of Our Oil Addiction and is currently a special advisor to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

New Book Explores the True Cost of Americas Oil Addiction

When we go to the gas pump to fill up, there's a price per gallon that we all see, but what about the price we don't see? We speak to an author who reveals the true costs involved in the petroleum pro

New Book Explores the True Cost of Americas Oil Addiction