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...blame OPEC - at least not completely. The oil-producer cartel hasn't stuck with its pledge to cut production by 1.5 million barrels a day in March, and analysts don't expect the 1 million-barrel reduction promised for April to be as steep as advertised either. Crude oil inventories in the U.S. are up nearly 5 percent from a year ago, to 313 million barrels - but gasoline inventories stand at 192.8 million barrels, a drop of 6.2 percent from this time last year and the lowest springtime level since...
...First problem: Refineries. With the spike in demand for heating oil just letting up after a frenzied winter, regular annual maintenance on the plants that turn crude into unleaded has stretched into spring, and crude is piling up on the shelves...
...flags flying from electricity poles and crude roadblocks of felled trees outside the town?constructed to block military access?suggest that's no exaggeration. In such villages GAM is trying to set up the rudiments of a parallel administration. It is also stepping up military training in makeshift camps where GAM senior cadres?some trained in Libya, others former Indonesian soldiers?put village youths through their paces...
BAC’s trick to success, in fact, is its deceptive simplicity. What appears to be crude and effortless is actually a very carefully plotted rusticity. This is attested to by the seamless transitions from one performance to another, the stylish, catchy tunes of a band perched above the ring’s main entrance and the fact that the show is tailored as much to the kids as to their parents. While the two clowns perform the requisite silly circus jokes and pranks their appearances are interspersed between well-choreographed couples’ dance and acrobatic routines that...
...should work toward energy conservation and efficiency because the development of the coastal plain would by no means make us independent of foreign oil. Imports of crude oil and refined products now cost the nation an annual $40 billion. According the U.S. Department of Commerce, oil represents the largest single commodity in the U.S. Balance of Trade deficit with other nations. But with the development of ANWR, our increased domestic production would decrease the deficit caused by crude oil imports, all the while, according to Wharton Economic Forecasting Associations, creating an estimated 736,000 jobs...