"We're measuring the zero-to-60 speed but also the gas mileage, " says Lankford.
Using technology invented in Nazi Germany and perfected by South Africa's Sasol when those countries were under oil embargoes, companies are now also investing furiously to convert not only natural gas but also coal into a liquid fuel.
Hungary, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Romania were hit hard, but the gas freeze also affected Germany, France and Italy.
Private investment, particularly in oil and gas but also in telecoms, transport and, soon, in power distribution, is beginning to reshape the economy.
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Obama also backs the natural gas drilling boom brought about by hydraulic fracturing, but that boom is also responsible for releasing methane, a potent greenhouse gas.
The fundamental point of the piece is that gas prices are endogenous: rises in gas prices can hurt the economy, but improvements in the economy can also raise gas prices, as people take their newfound wealth and try to buy more gas.
Yes, oil and gas, but also wind and solar and nuclear and biofuels, and more.
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The questions were worded to avoid alienating the gas nationalists but also to avoid a self-defeating and costly renationalisation.
Houston has oil and gas, but also NASA and the Texas Medical Centre, an agglomeration of 47 not-for-profit hospitals, medical schools and other institutions.
The goals going forward, the mayor continues, are not just to reduce greenhouse gas emissions but also those tied to acid rain, soot and mercury.
Supporting natural gas-but also wants to continue to find efficient energy.
The first is those countries that currently depend heavily on natural gas imports but also have significant shale resources: France, Poland, Turkey, Ukraine, South Africa, Morocco, and Chile.
It also says that many of the unregulated power generators will need to broaden their fuel options, meaning they will look for other participants not just in the natural gas area but also in the wind, solar and hydro sectors.
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Not just oil and gas, but also wind and solar and biofuels. (Applause.) We've got to keep developing the technology that allows us to use less oil in our cars and trucks, less oil in our buildings and our factories.
They will provide plenty of natural gas revenues, but also offer dividend cushions and generally more diversity of products and geography for safety.
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The violent encounter would have stripped away most of the dwarf galaxy's stars, but it also could have compressed the gas around its central black hole, triggering a new wave of star formation.
He has opened more public land and water for safe and responsible energy production, not just gas and oil but also wind and solar, creating thousands of new jobs and nearly doubling our use of renewable energy in this country.
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But there is also a symbolic significance about gas that goes to the heart of what America is.
Empire blames bad weather and higher gas prices, but it also might indicate the Swedes have sated their appetite for home-brewed soda.
But it also produces substantial quantities of natural gas, industrial machinery, auto parts and timber and exports them to many different consumer markets.
U.S. support for the Nabucco line would not only ensure true European energy diversity through fair competition, but also prevent the consolidation of the natural gas industry for decades to come.
You have countries, like Finland and Slovakia, that are entirely dependent on Russian gas not only paying two very different prices, but also paying less than many countries, like Poland, that get barely 50% of their gas from Russia.
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Argentina and Bolivia also have plenty of gas, but the Brazilian government is wary of adding to the country's big current-account deficit.
But the fresh abundance of natural gas has also weighed on its price, undercutting the profitability of the business for energy companies.
But there is also a rock that is happy to gobble it up, and according to the latest research its appetite for the greenhouse gas is not only massive but could also be increased by a little human intervention.
Moreover, as ever-better ways of measuring local carbon-dioxide levels become available, it will be possible to put figures on not just the amount of the gas that deforestation is releasing, but also how much of it photosynthesis is tucking away.
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The company buys existing oil-and-gas fields, which cuts the risk but also the payoff.
But the report also said higher taxes and a spike in gas prices had slowed sales.
Right now they are at 20-year-low, partly as a result of the economic recession, but also as a result of the wide uptake of shale gas.
Contrast that with U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, which have also risen, but stand only 20% above the 1990 level.
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