It takes a real, permanent shock to get any real effects, and suffice to say the American political system is unlikely to ever pass a gas tax high enough to drive these kinds of changes.
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At least Cheniere, like other brownfield sites that want to change direction, is able to use the pipeline infrastructure, loading facilities and other bits of the previous import terminal at Sabine Pass to export gas.
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The electronic nose is an array of nano-scale gas sensors--the maximized surface area of the nano-particles allows the most gas to pass over them--along with pattern recognition technology that can create a digital fingerprint (or noseprint, as the case may be) of specific smells.
This small nation of 10 million can threaten in other ways: 20% of EU gas imports from Russia pass through the former Soviet state.
Did the presumed oil and gas culprits get a pass?
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There are also concerns that if utility companies faced this extra charge they would pass the cost onto customers, making gas and electricity more expensive.
Give the Arnage T some gas, swing out to pass and, in an instant, it will charge forward in a fluid surge, hitting 90 mph in seconds.
The U.S. is at last moving in that direction, with the Department of Energy in recent weeks approving the proposal by Cheniere Energy to turn its little-used liquified natural gas import terminal at Sabine Pass on the Louisiana coast into an export terminal.
The provisions on oil drilling in Alaska are probably too controversial to pass, but support for a natural-gas pipeline may be thrown in as a sop to the state instead.
As his American rivals scoop up the frackable plots powering the great domestic oil and gas boom, Watson has largely taken a pass.
The W8 is good for that, because its added power means you can accelerate late and still manage that merge into traffic, or jump on the gas hard when a small window opens to pass on a two-lane country highway.
Supporters of drilling, including landowners who hope to sign lucrative leases with gas companies, have persuaded many other towns to pass resolutions supporting the state Department of Environmental Conservation in whatever decision it makes on regulating drilling.
She has an eye for ephemera at the edge of a vast stage: that tear-gas canisters become more not less potent when they pass their expiry date, that in July last year a Saudi flag appeared in Tahrir Square, that the soldiers took possession of any US dollar bills they came across as evidence of demonstrators being foreign agents.
Sabine Pass was designed as a regasification plant for a time when domestic gas would decline and America would need to import LNG.
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The deal also allowed Cheniere proceed with its Sabine Pass project in Louisiana, which could be the first liquid natural gas export plant built in the United States in roughly 50 years.
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So I ask members of Congress and all the interested parties involved to keep at it, pass a bill that helps us achieve the goal of extracting natural gas in a safe, environmentally sound way.
If the gas sheet had the same density throughout, radio waves would pass through it without distortion, like light through a window pane.
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 new Pickens Plan calls for Congress to pass legislation that will incentivize the conversion of 18-wheel trucks to compressed natural gas (CNG).
Should the vote pass, states will be relieved of their responsibilities regulating the wells, and oil and gas companies will be left with even higher taxes and ironclad regulations that will ultimately do more harm than good.
Earlier this year, Tangiers opened an expanded storage facility for oil, gas and other refined materials aimed at the more than 70, 000 ships that pass through the Strait of Gibraltar each year.
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