This can be done by heating the gas (a thermal plasma) or passing an electric current through it (a non-thermal plasma).
The pattern partly reflects access to gas heating, with much of northern Scotland off the gas grid.
These molecules appear at the fringe of the cloud of gas whose gravitational collapse and subsequent heating signals the birth of a star.
Although electricity bills would fall, the price of gas (the most popular home-heating fuel) would rise.
It consists of people who need the extra tax money to pay for the heating bill, put food on the table, and buy gas to commute to the nursing home to see their parents.
But there is good reason to think that the market has not yet peaked: the northern hemisphere's winter is only now approaching, heating oil stocks are at extremely low levels on both sides of the Atlantic, and the price of natural gas (oil's chief rival for home heating) has lately gone through the roof.
Crude oil accounts for a hefty 23% weighting, and along with gasoline, heating oil and natural gas, the energy complex totals nearly 40% of the entire index.
The proliferation of natural gas into the electricity market does nothing to reduce the correlation with heating and cooling requirements.
Tom Delare, economic counselor at the U.S. Embassy, says the massive subsidies that keep gas and heating oil at artificially low prices in Iraq also create a huge incentive for smugglers who simply take Iraqi gasoline or kerosene out of the country, bring it right back in, and sell it at much higher import prices.
Put the natural gas that you used to use heating your hot water into your vehicle.
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Refining-capacity constraints will keep gas prices up at the pump and for heating oil.
Low gas prices have meant that the cost of heating schools and other government buildings, often itemised on local tax bills, is falling.
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Fall is when gas pipeline companies build up their stockpiles for the winter heating season.
And he called for all payments generally to be applied across the board not just to those almost exclusively in homes without mains gas heating.
Good thing, since natural gas inventories are expected to start this winter's heating season at the highest levels since 1990, according to the federal Energy Information Administration.
One in six said the cost of prescriptions was the highest bill they faced, while one in seven said heating, electricity and gas bills were their most expensive cost.
During President Jimmy Carter's term, Tulis recalls, natural gas prices were inflated because the Administration predicted severe shortages and even mandated that gas be restricted to home heating and cooking.
Much of the avoided energy consumption will come from the switch to carbon-neutral district heating (rural households will switch from oil, natural gas, and electric heating to heat pumps and biomass burners).
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McCain-Palin should declare they'll make the dollar strong again--which will bring down prices, especially on gas and heating oil.
Allow early payment of Winter Fuel Allowance to pensioners whose homes are not connected to the mains grid, and instead use oil, liquid petroleum gas or propane gas for heating.
Four million households in the UK are not connected to the mains gas grid and people in this situation generally have very little choice in their source of heating fuel.
When gas first began to be used a lot in the 1960s it was a substitute for home heating oil, and so it made sense to tie its price to that of oil.
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In America, the energy index rose a whopping 3.8% in September as petrol, heating-oil and natural-gas prices all shot up.
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