Worryingly, his political camp includes Ukrainian officials involved in the scrapped gas intermediary.
Another possibility, one that is not on the table at all, is that New York could scrap natural gas altogether.
Scrapping the gas tax may help Mr McCain with the bitter, white vote.
Centrica scrapped two gas storage projects after failing to win public subsidies: it thought it cheaper to take a £240m writedown than to proceed with construction.
That's because the city's food waste might not be piled and prodded across a swathe of land but instead shoveled into tall enclosed tanks for anaerobic digestion, in which microorganisms devour food and other scraps, producing gases (mostly methane) that can be collected and used to fuel turbines and make electricity, or compressed into liquid fuel.
Mr. Hart said Sierra Energy's technology should be complementary with the Florida company's; the FastOx turns all municipal waste, not just wood scraps, into a gas that Ineos Bio could then transform into ethanol.
Stronger demand is helping the company raise prices and pass on rising costs for natural gas and scrap.
He's not the only one pushing the limits of science: In its sec filings EarthFirst claims it can create more than 20 pounds of carbon, fuel oil, combustible gas and scrap steel from a 20-pound tire.
Though twenty-first-century Bond Street, which consists of two rough-around-the-edges brick blocks between Broadway and the Bowery, has yet to boast a similar establishment, it's no longer the exclusive province of scrap-metal dealers and gas stations.
Tyson, which sells beef, pork, chicken and prepared foods, was one of the companies injured by a wave of unflattering news reports about a ground beef filler that critics called pink slime, made from beef scraps sprayed with ammonia gas to kill bacteria.
In addition to soil amendment, composting food scraps reduces green house gas emissions such as carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O).
