Natural gas prices will reverse their recent decline because of growing long-term demand and slowing production growth due to aging fields.
"When (EV drivers) starting paying more than gas, it strikes as reverse discrimination, " Friedland says.
Since this falls short of returning the industry to state ownership, the vote is being seen as something of a victory for foreign investors and a defeat for those who want to reverse the privatisation of the oil and gas industry, which took place in the 1990s.
The drop was the largest in recent years but not sufficient to reverse the long-term rise in greenhouse gas emissions.
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The UK government in September unveiled a tax break for oil and gas companies in a bid to reverse a decline in exploration and production in an industry which employs more than 300, 000 people.
Without investments, natural gas related jobs and manufacturing will decrease and reverse any previous economic gains.
But the gas pedal problems could throw its sales into reverse.
For the past decade production in the North Sea has been dwindling but a new boom in gas extraction off the east coast may soon reverse that downward slide.
"This goal sets America on a path to slow the growth of greenhouse gas emissions and, as the science justifies, to stop and then reverse that growth, " Dobriansky said in an e-mail to CNN.com while traveling in Europe.
Substantial investment in crude oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids pipelines will be required in order to build, expand, and reverse pipelines to address the new supply source locations .
However, the reverse is also true, and this has been the case so far in 2013 thanks to surging natural gas prices.
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