1. An elderly couple suffered carbon monoxide poisoning Thursday night after running a generator in their enclosed garage in Overland Park, Kan. 2. Both depend heavily on natural gas to run their generators, leaving them vulnerable to soaring gas prices. 3. A generator that runs only several hours a day produces electricity. 4. Sometimes, the gasoline motor runs a generator that recharges the batteries. 5. Some hospitals have had to throw out medicines like tuberculosis vaccine and insulin for lack of diesel fuel or gasoline to run their generators. 6. Telephones are still on party lines, and many houses run generators because they are not hooked up to electricity. 7. But he said this was because the plant had insufficient fuel oil to run the generators. 8. Details remained sketchy because of limited communications with the Dutch in Srebrenica, who were trying to conserve fuel used to run generators. 9. Just four months ago, the hospital had run out of fuel to run its generator during regular outages of electricity. 10. Mutsamudu remained in darkness Friday night with no fuel to run the generators there. |