Preface: Running on Empty; Acknowledgments; Contents; About the Author; 1 When Trucks Stop Running, America Stops; References; 2 Shipping Makes the World Go Round; From Sail to Steamships; The Container Ship Revolution; Ninety Percent of Global Trade Is Carried by Ships and Barges; Conclusion; References; 3 Why You Should Love Trains; Trains Consume Less Fuel yet Carry More Goods Than Trucks; A Brief History of Railroads; So Why Not Build More Railroad Tracks to Conserve Oil?; Who's Going to Pay for It?; Conclusion; References; 4 Why You Should Love Trucks; Conclusion; References

5 The Oiliness of Everything: Invisible Oil and Energy Payback TimeHow Energy is Used in the U.S. Economy; Energy Return on Investment or EROI; When You Do an EROI Analysis, Clearly a Low EROI Is a Problem; Conclusion; References; 6 Peak Oil and Transportation; Risks and Risk Management; Peak Oil May Be Less Than 20 Years Away; Oil Field Decline Rates; Where Will Additional Oil Come From?; Other Threats to Oil Supplies for the Transportation System; Conclusion; References; 7 Distributing Drop-in Fuels: The Fastest Road to Something Else; Next Stop: Service Stations

Cost to Create Drop-in FuelRailroads Can't Afford to Replace Their Locomotives; Conclusion: Time Is Running Out; References; 8 Post Fossil Fuels, If Biomass Is the ``Answer to Everything,'' Is There Enough?; References; 9 Hydrogen, the Homeopathic Energy Crisis Remedy; References; 10 Natural Gas
A Bridge Fuel to Where Exactly?; Economic Peak Natural Gas and Tight Oil?; Import Liquid Natural Gas?; Or Export LNG? America's Newfound Energy Independence; Is There Enough Natural Gas for Transportation?; Conclusion; References

11 Liquefied Coal: There Goes the Neighborhood, the Water, and the AirThe Future of CTL: How Much Diesel Could Be Made from Coal?; World and U.S. Peak Coal May Have Happened, or Will Soon; References; 12 Who Killed the All-Electric Car?; So Why Isn't There a Better Battery?; All-Electric Autos; References; 13 Can Freight Trains Be Electrified?; D'oh! Why Electrify? Diesel-Electric Locomotives Already Are Electric and More Efficient Than All-Electric Locomotives!; Electrify with Batteries? Been There, Done That. It Didn't Work Out; Other Issues with Electrification

Europe's Freight Trains Are Inferior. Why Copy Them?Electrify Just the Busiest Corridors; Conclusion; References; 14 All-Electric Trucks Using Batteries or Overhead Wires; Battery-Electric (BEV) Trucks; WAAAAY Too Expensive; Additional Costs; Trucks Running on Overhead Wires (Catenary); Conclusion; References; 15 Overview of the Electric Grid: Herding Lightning; References; 16 The Electric Grid Trembles When Wind and Solar Join the High Wire Act; Where Will Tomorrow's Power Come from?; There Is No Free Lunch; Intermittency; The Electric Grid Trembles When Wind & Solar Join the High Wire Act