@article {Huber:June 2009:0066-4812:465,
	author = "Huber, Matthew T.",
	title = "The Use of Gasoline: Value, Oil, and the American way of life",
	journal = "Antipode",
	volume = "41",
	year = "June 2009",
	abstract = ":&#8194; <P></P>While the critical literature has focused on the geography of oil production, the politics of &#8220;outrageous&#8221; gasoline prices in the United States provide a fertile path toward understanding the wider geography of petro-capitalism. Despite the deepening contradictions of US oil consumption, &#8220;pain at the pump&#8221; discourse projects a political sense of entitlement to low priced gasoline. I use a value-theoretical perspective to examine this politics as not only about the quantitative spectrum of price, but also the historical sedimentation of qualitative use-values inscribed in the commodity gasoline. Gasoline is analyzed both as a use-value among many within the postwar value of labor power and as a singular use-value fueling broader imaginaries of a national &#8220;American way of life.&#8221; While use-value still represents an open site of cultural and political struggle infused within value itself, the case of gasoline illustrates how use-values are not automatically mobilized toward politically savory ends.",
	pages = "465-486(22)",
	url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/anti/2009/00000041/00000003/art00004"
	doi = "doi:10.1111/j.1467-8330.2009.00683.x"
}