Are mustard gas and hydrogen gas the same because they’re both gases? Are coal and a diamond the same because they’re both made of carbon? For that matter, you could say a gun is the same as a flower because they’re both made of atoms. The whole can be greater than the sum of its […]
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Mercedes rules
So when Towns, a network engineer at HighMount Exploration & Production, decided he wanted to design his own natural gas-powered vehicle, his natural choice was a 2004 Mercedes-Benz SL600. Plenty of automakers have introduced cars that run on compressed natural gas, but Honda Civics aren’t quite as sexy as the 510-horsepower, twin-turbocharged V12 engine SL600. […]
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Ruffled Ruffalo
Well, now an Academy Award-nominated actor is tweeting with the Oklahoma-based energy company. New York state resident Mark Ruffalo, an actor in “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” “Zodiac,” “Shutter Island” and “The Kids Are All Right,” is an outspoken critic of hydraulic fracturing (or “fracking”) and screened the “GasLand” doc in Pennsylvania in 2010. […]
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O tower, where art thou?
Nary a crane was in sight even though construction has been under way for more than a year. Sometimes, the universe works in ironic ways. On the very same day that The Oklahoman ran an editorial titled “Natural gas anything but ignored in state,” Josh Fox’s “GasLand,” a film exposing the health and environmental risk […]