The reason for the length of time is that, unlike public stations, which have compressors that can fill the car in roughly two minutes, Phill does not have a compressor built in, so it relies on the slow accumulation of pressure over an extended period.

CNN: Natural-gas guzzler

Latent heat flux is highly variable with low values during the accumulation season and high values during the dry period.

UNESCO: Dublin Core

But in reality, deflation is the free-market approach to rectify a secular period of superfluous money supply growth, debt accumulation and asset price appreciation.

FORBES: Deflation Isn't The Enemy

Yet Mr Kennedy knows his period, and is also an expert in the vast accumulation of scholarship which it has called forth.

ECONOMIST: American history