$20 Per Gallon: How Higher Gas Prices Will Change Our Lives

Speaker: 
Chris Steiner
 
21 Sep 2010
 
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.


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