“ With gasoline prices at less than a dollar a gallon—an all-time low—it’s getting easy for Americans to fill up their gas-guzzling Pathfinders or Tahoes without a twinge of worry. But the same low fuel prices have also set two trends in motion overseas that could prove disastrous for the economy of the Middle East, the fortunes of Western oil companies and, ultimately, the pocketbooks of those same American consumers. ”
What’s Not to Like About Cheap Gas - washingtonpost.com (WaPo editorial from 1999!)