Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator instructions) Your first question comes from Rob Brown - Craig-Hallum Capital
Rob Brown – Craig-Hallum Capital
Could you maybe just throw a little more color on your pipeline of news stations? I know you said a number of them would be completed in Q4. How much additional volume does that get you for the Q4 stations and then how many kind of stations you going to falling in the ?09, and how does that pipeline look?
Andrew Littlefair
Rob, let me speak to the backlog, the pipeline and I think I’ve said this in the last quarter as well. I’ve never seen as many projects in the pipeline, and I was just reviewing that the other day and it changes and they come and go, but the number continues to increase. They don’t make our station carpet until we’re in negotiation with the customers and we’re well down the road negotiating with the customers with contracts.
Literally there’s 120, 125 stations in the pipeline. I can’t tell you exactly when those will come on and how many actually will get built in 2009, but I think I’ve said before; we’ll construct this year about 50% more than we did last year and that wouldn’t surprise me that we’ll do more than that next year.
Now the volumes; I don’t know that we’re going to project that for you, but you know and you remember in our discussions, we don’t spec these stations and they have to come with contracts and with volume of course. Some of them are large and some of them are smaller, but remember we like to think and this is really a kind of a broad brush -- we like to think that these stations have to do a minimum of 1000 gallons per day. That’s typically what we target for and some of them will be much larger than.
There are several large transit opportunities in the offering and in offing and some of those will be brought on in the quarter. So I can’t give you a number, I don’t know that I should, because we don’t really give that kind of guidance, but I’m beginning to start seeing the volume go in the direction I’d like to see it.
Rob Brown - Craig-Hallum Capital
And then on your natural gas project or acquisition, I guess has that yet started to bring additional rough use business to you and then maybe could you comment on how much additional volume your capital can bring in?
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