It pours petrol (gas) on an argument smouldering in Republican ranks.
In February the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) concluded that ethanol emits 20% less greenhouse gas than petrol.
"To have 100 billion cars on the planet that aren't being used is a total waste of materials, gas, petrol, metals, " Frigstad explained.
Iran has begun to overhaul their subsidies (and they are by far the largest) by replacing below market price gas and petrol with cash grants to poor families.
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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.
My native Britain has taxed gas, what we call petrol, highly for many years.
Many petrol stations are already hooked up to gas-lines for heating.
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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.
According to official statements the price of flour could be 40 times higher, petrol would cost between four and seven times more, gas five times more, and electricity and water about three times more.
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Food and petrol were the main culprits, only partially offset by falling gas and electricity prices.
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Petrol is up by 6p a gallon, and bread, gas and electricity have all suffered price rises.
Security was tight in Mexico City for the inauguration earlier as petrol bomb-wielding protesters clashed with riot police who fired tear gas.
The watchdog has launched an investigation into domestic oil and gas prices but this will not cover the cost of petrol on station forecourts.
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Little, a consultancy that has investigated the matter, the running costs to a driver of a fuel-cell car that gets its hydrogen from natural gas would be comparable to those of one that used clean petrol.
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