UPS, the shipping company, is building fifteen new compressed natural gas filling stations.   They already have eight in operation, so this will bring their total CNG filling stations to 23, if I do my math correctly.  UPS has been using CNG since 1989, and uses a number of other alternative fuels in its fleet.  They have an alternative fuels factsheet over at their website if you’d like to check into a few more details.

One of the new CNG filling stations will be located in Charleston, WV.  This is great for us!  Not that the filling station itself will bring a lot of new jobs or anything.  We need more CNG filling stations and more CNG vehicles.  The vehicles are one of the things that will drive up demand for natural gas.  More demand equals higher prices.  Higher prices equal more royalties paid and more development.