Terry Tamminen is the former Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency and currently a Special Advisor to Governor Schwarzenegger.

Beyond the financial and political impact, did you ever really think about the health impact? Direct health care costs from pollution total and estimated $55 billion per year. 125,000 cases of cancer per year in the US can be attributed to diesel exhaust. And there's much more in Mr. Tamminen's new book "Lives Per Gallon".

"We all thought we knew the costs of oil addiction-power to terrorists and tyrants, and global climate change. But Tamminen's book demonstrates that we don't know the half of it. Gasoline is a deadly carcinogen like tobacco. The health, environmental, and climatic impact of our oil dependency, he shows, is catastrophic. And the economic cost of subsidizing the oil industry is bankrupting. But Tamminen does more than point to the problems. He lays out step-by-step solutions to ending our oil addiction. I only wish that all members of Congress would read this book."

"America's prosperity, our independence and security, our democracy and our ideals, our international leadership and national pride are all dependent on our breaking our lethal oil addiction. Terry Tamminen has turned the spotlight of clarity on the defining issue of our age."

Lives Per Gallon Official Web Site link here.