The ongoing problems at New York City gas stations right now are a case in point.
The trouble for many New York City gas stations has been that the terminals they depend on, based in the tri-state area, were hurt by the storm damaged or without power and are now either shut or operating at less-than-full capacity.
No one knows exactly how many stations in the city have gas, but an informal survey by this reporter of 40 stations along major freeways entering the city indicates that only about 10 percent of them have anything to sell.
The plan is to enable long-haul truckers to reach every major city on natural gas alone.
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Jose Alberto Paiva Gouvea, president of Sincopetro, said in a radio interview that it could take four or five days to refill the city's gas stations.
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He says there are more outlets than gas stations in the city, but at least one online listing shows 677 gas stations in Orlando.
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Inside the city of Houston, gas could be found, but it took a lot of persistence.
While Disney World understandably needs a lot a lot of juice to keep the massive crowds of theme-park enthusiasts cool, calm and composed, the gas gluttonous City of Vernon cannot claim the same excuse.
New York City could cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 90% by 2050 by implementing a portfolio of energy reduction measures using existing technologies, according to a report released last week by the Urban Green Council.
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To move the natural gas through the city, Chesapeake Energy needs to bury a pipeline in her yard.
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In 2001 he covered the chaotic funeral of Palestinian leader Faisal Husseini in Jerusalem's Old City when Israeli troops fired tear gas at a group of Palestinian youths.
Mariangel Javier, who is nine months pregnant, said she had been waiting for more than five hours to fill up at a gas station in Union City, New Jersey.
One is a hot, crowded compound north of Gaza City, where the stench of gas is so strong you shudder with fear that someone will light a cigarette and the whole place will go up in flames.
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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Gas stations in New York City, on Long Island and in Westchester and Rockland counties could draw from the state-contracted generators or use their own.
The entire city of Fort Worth sits over a gas dense layer of black rock called the Barnett Shale that only recently became possible to access.
"It started on the evening of 24 January when protesters, I think, started tearing down one of the concrete walls in the city, and police started firing tear gas, " he said.
When operational, the facility -- which is owned by that utility, San Diego Gas and Electric and the city of Riverside -- supplies power for 1.4 million households at any given time.
Emergency director Marcogliese asked terminal managers to line up fuel trucks that could be sent to resupply a gas station near the Texas City refinery so workers at least would have fuel to get around.
President Barack Obama has strongly endorsed natural gas as a clean energy source, and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has said more natural gas is critical for the city to improve air quality and public health.
Schneiderman told The Associated Press that the action is part of his continuing investigation into claims of jacking up gas prices in New York City, its suburbs and on Long Island immediately after Sandy slammed the region last fall.
Police initially believed the blast in the city's Malleshwaram locality happened after a gas cylinder caught fire, Mr. Gopalkrishna said.
Like another crosstown oil and gas exploration company based in Oklahoma City, SandRidge Energy (SD) is exhibiting the same shareholder inimical corporate governance practices.
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At night the flares of a giant natural-gas plant burn brightly in the city's skies from behind a high fence designed to keep local people out.
In September of last year, a massive explosion at a Pemex natural-gas plant near the northern border city of Reynosa killed 30 workers and caused critical shortages of the fuel, causing the state-run electricity company Comision Federal de Electricidad to switch to more expensive fuels in order to free up some natural gas for industry.
This includes promoting electric and hybrid cars as an alternative to gas-guzzling cars idling on clogged city roads.
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Riot police in the Turkish city of Istanbul have used water cannon and tear gas to prevent leftist May Day marchers reaching the main square.
More than 50, 000 customers were without power by early Friday evening in the Oklahoma City area because of severe weather, the Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co. said.
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