The gas filling stations supply to vehicles driven by compressed natural gas, and the government hopes that the gas saved will be used to increase electricity production in gas-fired power plants.
There will also be credits for natural gas vehicle manufacturers and for installing natural gas filling stations.
At a Valero station in Bellmore in Nassau County, Doug Ulberg, 55, was filling up two gas cans for his generator.
Clean Energy Fuels makes natural gas-filling equipment for buses and other large vehicles.
Imagine filling up at the gas station with a pump that showed neither price nor quantity, but the gas station sent you a bill five weeks later.
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Yet he made it sound as if it was no more difficult than pumping gas at a filling station.
Meyers, 53, of Gaithersburg, Maryland, was killed while pumping gas at a Manassas filling station.
In midwestern states where Wal-Mart has opened its own filling stations, the gross margin on gas has dropped from 13 cents a gallon to 9 cents a gallon.
One promising idea is to extract the hydrogen from natural gas in large reformers located at filling stations, and then store it on board vehicles in solids known as metal hydrides.
Airline gas mileage has improved over the years, the result of filling more seats on each flight, replacing multiple trips on small planes with fewer trips on larger aircraft and replacing older planes with newer, more fuel-efficient jets.
Bertolli-branded sandwiches are being sold in Europe's gas stations, where a patented technology protects the bread from the moist filling.
Mr. Lichter acknowledged filling the office space would be a challenge but said Akron has benefited recently from growth in the natural-gas sector, which is expanding drilling using hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking, " nearby.
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