Seeing End of Fuelish Lifestyle

On a bookshelf in his living room, above a row of books by his favorite author, Tom McGuane, Jim Kunstler has placed a sticker that reads: “Me & My SUV. Consuming your future to feed my ego.”

In the back yard of his house on the city’s north side sits Kunstler’s Trek 720 mountain bike. He fills its battered green panniers with groceries, books and other provisions purchased on frequent rides around town.

Out front, a four-cylinder ‘92 Toyota pickup with 90,000 miles is parked.

These details are things a reader might want to know about Kunstler. His latest book, “The Long Emergency,” heaps upon gas-guzzling, SUV-owning suburbanites the same caustic criticism as his earlier jeremiads against the junk landscapes of American sprawl.
Times Union