One more day that I've survived. Another night alone. Pay no mind I'm doing fine. I'm breathing on my own. I'm here. And I'm on the mend. I'm here. And I'm on the mend my friend.
And thereâs more than one gas station in the United States as well. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there were 114,533 gas stations in the U.S. at the end of 2012, the last year for which data is available. The actual number of gas stations in the United States is a little difficult to pin down. According to the National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS), of the countryâs 151,282 convenience stores at the end of 2013, 121,658 sell fuel, a year-over-year increase of 2.7%.
It is estimated that of the existing wells in the United States hydraulic fracturing has been performed in more than 70% of them. There were more than 493,000 active natural-gas wells across 31 states in the U.S. in 2009, almost double the number in 1990. Around 90 percent have used fracking, according to the drilling industry. In 2013 the WSJ looked at data from over 700 counties in 11 gas-producing states, and found at least 15.3 million Americans have a natural gas well within one mile of their home that has been drilled since 2000.