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04/30/2008 Archived Entry: "Good-Bye, Cheap Oil. So Long, Suburbia?"

The suburban landscape has been marred by foreclosures and half-built communities abandoned in the subprime aftermath. But James Howard Kunstler, author of a dozen books, including The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape, thinks there's a bigger threat to those far-flung neighborhoods: the scarcity of oil.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_18/b4082056979063.htm?campaign_id=rss_daily