People are using credit and debit cards in more and more everyday situations, from meals purchased at fast-food restaurants and fuel purchased at gas stations to movies, groceries, sundries, highway tolls and clothing.
Its first action was to challenge oil companies to double the number of renewable fuel pumps at their stations within the year and pledge to offer E85 ethanol fuel at half of all gas stations within the decade.
Then, you'll have access to realtime traffic information, fuel rates at local gas stations, along with email, text messages and other data feeds, including news and sports scores.
On another energy-security front, Woolsey called on automakers to produce fuel-flex cars and for gas stations to offer motorists the choice of gasoline or methanol a liquid fuel made from natural gas to free American transportation from dependence on OPEC.
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The institution says 80% of the gas needed to fuel British power stations will come from distant and "politically unstable" countries by then.
Some gas stations ran out of fuel Thursday night during the rush to prepare for the storm.
SuperValu too, offers this at a limited number of stores: locations with fuel centers and in partnership with local gas stations.
On Thursday, an estimated 28% of New York metro area gas stations were not pumping fuel (or could not be contacted), according to the Energy Information Administration.
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The application, U.S. Fuel Price Mapping, provides drivers directions to gas stations with the lowest prices in the surrounding area from a mobile device.
Now all but one of its 43 fuel stations sell Rutter's brand of gas.
MasterCard charges gas stations when they accept payments for fuel using MasterCard-branded cards.
's father, Carey Hezekiah Falwell, ran a string of gas stations during Prohibition, using his fuel trucks to smuggle bootleg whiskey.
In September 2011, fuel and chemical Group Ultra, holding that controls gas stations in Brazil, launched the energy drink Mood, which is commercialized in about 1000 stores near gas stations around the country.
Uganda says many gas stations there have shut down because of shortages of fuel, most of which is imported by road from Kenya's Indian Ocean coast.
Fuel that is 85% ethanol can be bought at a handful of gas stations, mostly in the Midwest, and pure ethanol is sold all over Brazil, so it's easy to assume the technology of making it is solved.
Still, that's hardly a noticeable fraction of the 170, 000 regular gas stations in this country that still don't sell E85 fuel.
After all, their fuel is free, whereas the bills of power stations that run on coal and natural gas are high and rising.
Having invested heavily in gas-fired stations, only to find themselves locked into an increasingly expensive fuel, they do not want to make another mistake.
More and more gas stations nationwide are installing CNG pumps as natural gas vehicles rapidly become the alternative fuel of choice.
He has shown a strong interest in turning the island into a giant laboratory when the switch to fuel cell vehicles begins in earnest 10 to 15 years from now, as well as in testing the safety of hydrogen gas stations, the long-term reliability of cars and the economic viability of fuel cells.
Gas is used not to fill up cars and lorries though there are gas-fired transport enthusiasts who would like to do something about that but to fuel power stations and heat homes.
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