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To: xxreno who wrote (23378)	6/4/2003 1:03:53 PM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 206100

I don't know much about the business side of fertilizer, but as a user of fertlizers (on a very small scale) I do know that the very high nitrogen content of ammonium nitrate and urea formaldehyde make them a convenient way of "shipping" the natural gas that's used in their production. And of course ammonia itself is a lot easier to liquify under pressure than methane is (ammonia liquifies at 114 pounds per square inch at room temperature). So I would expect ferilizer manufacturing to move to the sites where there is a lot of cheap methane (and maybe this has already happened).