As a result, major auto makers, OEMs, fuel providers and infrastructure players are creating an environment that makes natural gas transportation a viable option for both businesses and consumers.
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His plan, by boosting markets for natural gas, would presumably drive up gas prices and goose investments he holds, like shares in the natural gas transportation company Clean Energy Fuels.
The move to natural gas transportation is happening, and with the public and industry embracing NGVs, there are now more options for driving and fueling than the country has ever seen before.
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And again, the potential for natural gas as a transportation fuel, and the revolution in natural-gas production, undermine the economics of renewable motor fuels.
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America is only one of the many nations adopting natural gas in transportation.
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Recently, 22 States promoted the use of natural gas in transportation and have committed to buying at least 10, 000 fleet vehicles.
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Williams Partners fell after the natural-gas transportation company announced an equity sale.
The most obvious growth area for natural gas in transportation is for urban fleets (taxis, buses and other service vehicles) that have access to a central refueling facility.
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The technology needed to use natural gas a transportation fuel has been around for many years and is being used around the world and in the United States by a very limited group.
The future of a technology that converts dirty cheap coal into clean natural gas for transportation fuel was underscored last night by a Chinese investment in Synthesis Energy Systems(SYMX, NASDAQ), a small Houston company that holds a valuable license for this transforming technology.
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In addition to the economic benefits, it is also essential in providing America clean natural gas which fuels public transportation and helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Presently, natural gas used as transportation fuel constitutes only about 0.1 % of total U.S. consumption.
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Energy Transfer Partners is involved in natural gas processing, transportation and marketing operations.
For example, he said, using compressed natural gas as a transportation fuel in a new generation of cars would be a travesty.
Some focus on petroleum or natural gas storage or transportation.
All three companies under the Energy Transfer Equity umbrella will own more than 44, 000 miles of natural gas pipelines with transportation capacity of approximately 30.7 billion cubic feet per day.
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Aside from a small percentage of electricity which comes from natural gas, and a transportation industry which still leans heavily on foreign oil, Iceland is already well on its way toward meeting that goal.
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With at least a one hundred year reserve of domestic shale gas in America, a huge price difference between natural gas and diesel or gasoline, and the opportunity for significant energy security benefits offered by a domestic resource, businesses, consumers and governments have realized the need to incorporate natural gas into the national transportation mix.
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Oceanic transportation of natural gas is quite limited, so the market is essential continental.
It develops natural gas engines for virtually every transportation sector from forklifts, delivery vans, and buses to long-haul trucks, railroad locomotives, and mine haul trucks.
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With cheaper natural gas will come less expensive transportation costs.
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"We are concerned that adding new uses to natural gas, such as in transportation, will create new and relatively inelastic demand that we cannot meet without high prices, " he warned.
Crestwood, the Houston-based company engaged in gathering and processing natural gas, announced an all-stock merger with Inergy, the Kansas City, Missouri-based company engaged in storage and transportation of natural gas earlier this month.
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Many people are trying to figure out whether natural gas really has legs as a transportation fuel.
The transportation market for natural gas is tiny now and can be huge with conversion of natural gas to methanol.
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On another energy-security front, Woolsey called on automakers to produce fuel-flex cars and for gas stations to offer motorists the choice of gasoline or methanol a liquid fuel made from natural gas to free American transportation from dependence on OPEC.
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However, in the present supply glut is gas, its reduction in gas volume transportation revenues may be offset by higher storage revenues from natural gas.
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And what happens when natural gas fuels more of our trucking and transportation fleets?
Most MLPs are involved in the transportation of oil and natural gas through pipelines owned by the partnership.
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