It has agreed a three-year contract with Glasgow-based Response UK to provide call centre staff handling its gas and electricity account holders.

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Unshackled, entrepreneurs would find ways to team up with existing holders of rights of way, such as cable, gas and telephone companies, railroads and highways, to run power lines to new customers, e.g.

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Such trusts receive a stream of cash from the sale of oil and gas generated from a particular set of fields, which they pass along to unit holders.

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The ExxonMobile Smart Card, a chip-embedded gas-only card that is coming out later this year, will allow card holders to earn a six-cents-per-gallon credit on up to 100 gallons in each billing cycle.

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Canadian's oil and gas trusts typically pay out most of their cash flow (net income plus noncash charges like depletion) to unit holders.

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