31.   Seeing strength in numbers, it plans to negotiate lower rates with the new marketing companies selling the gas.

32.   Shell is working harder to sell the gas now.

33.   SynFuel founder Robert Van Patten said the company also expects to sell gas to a power utility to generate electricity.

34.   The acquisition made Tosco the largest operator of convenience stores in the U.S. and helped secure more places to sell its gas.

35.   The Coffee Station is the only restaurant in Crawford and it sells gas too.

36.   The company sells gas at home for less than a tenth of prices in Europe.

37.   The company sells gas to utilities and other large customers, and it arranges sales of natural gas through Coral Energy, a marketing partnership with Shell.

38.   The contracts require British Gas to pay producers for gas even if that gas cannot be sold.

39.   The contracts oblige British Gas to pay for gas even if that gas cannot be sold.

40.   The pipelines could not sell gas at the inflated prices they had promised to pay, and eventually there were bankruptcies.