Pueblo Chieftain: Nothing like pumping $4-a-gallon gas into your car to make one contemplate the skyrocketing cost of energy and its impact on our lives. The rising costs of gasoline, diesel and barrels of crude and their effect on the price of food and other essential goods are sending shock waves throughout the nation. “Since 2000, coal prices are up 400 percent, uranium is up 1,000 percent, natural gas is up 300 percent, and oil is up 600 percent,” according to Jigar Shah, founder …