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Environmental regulation ''fuels'' company''s rapid growth.

Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
Publication Date: 25-OCT-04 		Format: Online - approximately 814 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Environmental regulation ''fuels'' company''s rapid growth.(Focus: private companies)

Article Excerpt
BRANDON -- It's a simple idea that makes sense and whose time has come--delivering fuel on-site to fleets of vehicles while they sit idle. The idea came to Greg Nethery when companies were being cited for environmentally unsafe underground fuel storage tanks.

At the time, Nethery was providing on-site maintenance and oil changes for commercial vehicles. Why not provide on-site fuel service? That good old American ingenuity kicked in and a new company, On-Site Fuel Service, was born in 1996.

"The federal regulations were put in place in 1996, and that prompted folks to look at ground water pollution," On-Site Fuel Service's president said. "In some places I saw tanks leaking fuel on the ground and lines of guys waiting to...

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