If you have a gas grill, preheat by using the burner on only one side, on medium heat, for about 15 minutes.

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And if you don't have gas for your car, you can't go to church.

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And certainly as we get into a longer legislative debate on climate change, just in my conversations with the CEO, he talked about the notion of if you actually price greenhouse gas emissions into the production of power, you have a powerful incentive to find clean energy alternatives.

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If you look at across the whole life cycle of growing corn, making ethanol and burning it in a car, and compare that to what happens when you find oil and make gasoline and burn it in a car, you only have about 15 percent less greenhouse gas going into the air from burning ethanol than you would if you're burning gasoline.

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Wave it near a reader, whether on a gas pump or in the fast-food line, and if you have enough credit on the card it's linked to the payment takes only seconds.

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