Arkansas has moderate energy resources. Per capita energy use is high due in part to an energy-intensive industrial sector, which leads State energy consumption.
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- Coal-fired plants, which supply about one-half of Arkansas's electricity demand, rely entirely on coal deliveries via railcar from Wyoming.
- Arkansas natural gas production accounts for about 1 percent of U.S. output.
- Companies are beginning to extract small amounts of natural gas from coalbed methane deposits in the Arkoma basin.
- Arkansas is one of the few States in the Nation that allow the use of conventional motor gasoline statewide.