2013 | State of the Industry
we want to make sure we expand our
services so we can address their needs.
And I think the last area is that
I believe ILTA has done a great job
in terms of providing services to our
members and I think one of our focuses this year will be to enhance our
own marketing of that so we can both
engage existing members to be more
involved in the many offerings and
activities we have as well as encouraging new members into the organization. I think there is a great history of
leadership within the ILTA staff where
they provide far more than just running an industry association.
NPN: As you touched on earlier, the
natural gas side is an important part of
your operations. And in the industry
we are seeing natural gas play out on
the motor fuel side with Class 8 trucks
and then into third-party sales to res-
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idential and commercial customers.
Would you mind talking a bit about
what you see with natural gas?
Russell: It's a great question and a
great issue. Certainly on the East Coast
there's been a lot of activity in the last
few years with the Marcellus find and
the reserves and abundance are causing
people to be more creative. The
Northeast has some of the most densely populated areas in the country. But
it also has some fairly remote areas
which cannot be easily reached by
pipeline and it will be a long, long time
before the economics would justify
that out to some of those less populated areas. So from the standpoint of
distributed fuels market, it is something that we have tried to listen to our
customers and there are some opportunities there in terms of compressed
natural gas that seem to make sense.
BURTON S. RUSSEL
There are some baseline infrastructure
needs there, but I think it's a market
that will continue to grow.
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