$20 Per Gallon: How the Inevitable Rise in the Price of Gasoline Will Change Our Lives for the Better

will get what they want, but in the process they will catalyze a global economic reformation on a scale never seen, changing our lives, changing their lives, changing the earth.

requires 150 pounds of ammonia fertilizer.

the United States for combined heat and power, also known as cogeneration, where the result would be more than a doubling of current efficiencies.

In 1990, cars made up 90% of the luxury market. By 1996, cars had been relegated to 44%, with SUVs scooping up the majority.

The use of electrolysis and water in making ammonia all but stopped with the advent of cheap and bountiful natural gas in the 1930s. That’s because it takes far less energy to simply strip the hydrogen out of natural gas (CH4) than to split water molecules.

There are more than twice as many garbage trucks, 179,000, in the United States as there are urban transit buses. These refuse-hauling monsters get an average of 2.8 miles per gallon. 7 Garbage trucks move at an average speed of 10 mph, an incredibly inefficient pace for a combustion engine, but one that’s necessary because of the garbage truck’s d

“Each one of these farms will specialize in something. One might be tomatoes, one might be peppers, I’m sure several of them would grow all sorts of greens.”

Gruhn’s dream is that cleanly made ammonia pops up as a competitor to gasoline.

People want what Americans have had for decades: easy cars and an easy life. These people