The plunge in New York gas comes at a time when gas output is booming in the rest of the country.

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The price of gas at the pump had to match the higher prices around the rest of the world to incentivize the purchase of more efficient cars and greater use of public transportation.

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The Energy Information Administration (EIA) puts it at around 37tcm of recoverable reserves, two-thirds of which is shale gas and the rest tight gas and coal-bed methane.

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Clearly, a Supercharger stop will take longer than refilling at a gas pump, but Tesla is targeting what it thinks most people will consider a reasonable rest period after 3 hours of driving.

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But even if it doesn't come to that, there's little rest in sight for U.S. firefighters like those here at Montana's Gas Creek fire camp.

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But the chief executive, his workforce and their customers can at least rest a little more comfortably over the issue of energy security now that the British gas and electricity giant is set to build a massive 885-megawatt gas-fired plant in Langage, Devon.

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