It confines itself to resources like gas, nickel and timber, for which market prices exist.
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"We need to have instant-on sources of energy" like gas to balance loads from wind and solar generation.
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While the stores get to keep just 5% of lottery sales, the tickets are a big draw, like gas and cigarettes.
He saw that there was an analogy between the radiation in the container and a gas: The quanta, he realized, behaved like gas particles.
Some analysts believe that, with higher portions of income going towards necessities like gas and energy, Americans are inclined to otherwise save their money.
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Much of this growth has come from nonbank operators like gas stations and convenience stores, which charge stiff fees for the convenience, as the banks point out.
But these days it's leaning more toward clean diesel engines that get high mileage and can run on newly popular fuels like gas-to-liquid synthetic diesel or biodiesel.
Cutting down on the burden of moving mountains of paper bills and heavy coins could conceivably save a bundle in cost-sensitive businesses like gas and fast food.
But their expenditures say a different thing, with sales for both essential items like gas and discretionary items like restaurants, motor vehicles, clothing, and furniture recording solid gains.
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The Fund attributes the difference to increased violence in the months leading up to the January 2005 parliamentary elections, which raised the prices of key commodities like gas and food.
It's a quality, he points out, that has inspired artists like Edward Hopper, who returned repeatedly to the empty warmth of road cafes and petrol stations in paintings like Gas and Automat.
Sun Microsystems is betting big on utility computing, a new model that would make processing time available to businesses on demand, much in the same way they buy utilities like gas and electricity.
Wind turbines can only supply electricity when the wind blows, and as long as inexpensive energy storage remains elusive, utility companies will have to combine wind with a resource that can be banked in reserve, like gas.
On September 26th the group announced, in a paper posted to arXiv, an online database, that its participants had discovered two probable exoplanets, one a Jupiter-like gas giant, and the other, possibly, a smaller, rocky world about twice the diameter of Earth.
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" What you really get with this product, whose interest rates range from 13% to 23% depending on credit history, is 1% cash back on the vast majority of purchases and 3% for purchases "in popular categories that change like gas, home improvement and department stores.
The remaining value can be attributed to oil and gas trading and energy products like natural gas, synthetic oil, bitumen and fuel oil.
If the Senate ratifies the CWC, moreover, the administration has announced that it intends to interpret the treaty so broadly as to deny American troops the use of humane, nonlethal weapons like tear gas -- which are likely to come in handy in places like Haiti.
EPDs show shoppers key facts like greenhouse gas emissions generated, water consumption, and pollution impact.
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What does a dirty-fuel player like Consol want with a clean-burning fuel like natural gas?
Nor can they compare to the power density of sources like natural gas, oil and nuclear.
But excise taxes like the gas tax aren't the only place for taxes to be secreted away.
Those that rise to the top of the ratings scale--like helium gas itself--receive the greatest monetary compensation.
And what are the conversations around here like as gas prices are rising?
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Various studies have concluded that higher parking fees deter driving more than other types of cost increases, like rising gas prices.
Measures like a gas tax would work best if they were part of a national energy plan that Americans could understand.
In addition to growing energy needs in developing markets, the market is undergoing a shift towards cleaner fuels, like natural gas, from coal.
But with a global capacity glut in 2001 chemical prices softened, even as raw material costs like natural gas began a fivefold price increase.
It also said emissions could be reduced by making wider use of low carbon fossil fuels like natural gas, and decarbonising exhaust gases from power plants.
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Like natural gas, which is experiencing a full-scale US boom.
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