Higgins III thought he had left Sierra Pacific Resources in great shape when he took off in early 1998 to run Atlanta Gas Light.
"Prior to the electricity, we came in and had to come with a torch or a candle and light your gas, if you had gas, light your candles, " he said.
And those gas guzzling light trucks and SUVs, consumers are turning away from those, and as a result the U.S. auto industry is suffering.
Greater reliance on natural gas-fueled light duty vehicles is possible but will require more time due to greater infrastructure requirements and technological innovation.
Mr. OBRADOR: (Through translator) Come December, I will reduce the cost of light, gas and gasoline.
Steven Mandel trains his 7-inch telescope on a portion of the Veil Nebula, a cloud of gas 1, 600 light-years away.
Other creative opportunities being explored include natural gas pumps (hooked up to the home) to fuel natural gas vehicles, and light duty vehicles relying on fuel cells (which manufacturers hope to begin building by 2015).
Anyway, China is now seeing the light on natural gas according to reports this morning.
One way to compute its value is to shine light through a gas-filled container.
Friends of the Earth said "a green light for shale gas would be a costly mistake for our country and countryside".
Even more significantly, Ankara gave a green light to Iranian gas exports to Europe through the Nabucco gas pipeline which runs from Turkey to Austria.
At Sanarpar, outside Dhaka, police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at strikers who set light to a lorry, police chief Abdul Matin told AFP news agency.
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The barrier to using the devices in vehicles is no one knows how to carry enough hydrogen, a light and flammable gas that is difficult to compress, to be useful.
But, at a time when petrol costs less than bottled water, it will take all Mr Iacocca's considerable salesmanship to persuade American drivers to swap their gas-guzzlers for a light and environmentally friendly electric buggy.
The visible light from it was bright enough for George Djorgovski, Mark Metzger and Shri Kulkarni of the California Institute of Technology and their colleagues to analyse, and to demonstrate that it had travelled through a cloud of interstellar gas at least 10 billion light-years from the earth.
For its part, the North American Reliability Corporation (NERC), who oversees power market reliability, issued a December report highlighting that gas and power markets need to be more synchronized to effectively enable reliability in light of higher dependence on natural gas generation.
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The atoms in the gas will absorb certain colours of light, each of which corresponds to a particular wavelength.
This will help Exxon maintain its production momentum in light of low natural gas prices and high crude oil prices.
Only if alpha were a smidgen smaller when the light passed through the gas cloud could such a pattern have been produced.
Economists would say the rising prices are like the check engine light coming on on the dashboard, and to lift the gas tax would just put a piece of black tape over the warning light.
He also called on Congress to ban incandescent light bulbs and require better gas mileage for cars.
And those electrons drift up into a gas layer, and when they hit the gas and you get another flash of light.
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The algae in the device lives in water surrounded by a gas-permeable membrane and helped by light from and LED.
Heat a gas grill to medium-high or light a charcoal fire and let it burn just until the coals are covered with gray ash.
The Nation increasingly relies on the Internet to run the systems that light our houses, provide gas for our cars, and ensure our water is safe to drink.
Here, looking towards the centre of the Milky Way, it spies a ribbon of cold gas and dust that is more than 600 light-years across and which appears to be twisted.
The light from the planet was detected in infrared form by the Spitzer Space Telescope, which also detected the first light from another exoplanet, the gas giant HD 209458 b.
Its engine segment (49% of net sales in 2010) produces a wide range of engines that run on diesel and natural gas used in heavy-, medium- and light-duty trucks, buses, automobiles, RVs, and industrial vehicles.
The light from such giants blows away the outer gas and dust of their neighbours, leaving nothing to form planets.
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