How Much Should OPEC Worry?

Has The Denver Post's John Aloysius Farrell had an epiphany?

"People have been nagging me about my wasteful oil consumption for 30 years. I didn't pay much attention. I love my Mustang convertible. I was the kind of guy who, hearing President Bush tout the virtues of ethanol and decry America's "addiction" to oil in the State of the Union speech, would dismiss it as empty rhetoric.

"Except, recently, I was stopped in my tracks by a message on an airport billboard. "The world consumes two barrels of oil for every barrel discovered," it said. "So is this soething you should be worried about?" The question was a grabber. But what really stunned me was the billboard's sponsor. Not the government. Not the Sierra Club.

"This message was brought to us by Chevron."

To read more detail about the emerging national fuel crisis, read Steve Goddard's GETTING THERE: The Epic Struggle Between Road and Rail in the American Century.