Word: dieselized
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...next year, Audi will introduce several new models aimed at consumers it categorizes as "sporty" and "progressive." Look for the Q5, a junior sibling of the full-sized Q7 SUV, as well as the Q7 TDI, which boasts a 221-h.p. diesel engine...
...dozen or so tankers heaves into the steamy southern Iraqi port of Khur al-Zubar, and the normally sleepy docks jump to life. Teams of workers scramble over ships arriving mainly from Dubai, Bahrain and other points around the Persian Gulf to connect hoses for the flow of diesel, kerosene and gasoline. Old-fashioned gas-station tickers beside the ships clatter as thousands of liquid tons begin moving...
...Most urgently the government will have to address Pakistan's pressing energy needs. It has already installed barge-based power generators that run on diesel, but that is a temporary, and expensive, solution. The building of dams and coal-based generators is stymied by political disputes. The Indus River, a potential source of hydropower, runs through two provinces whose governments cannot agree on water-sharing rights. Development in Baluchistan, which has rich reserves of coal, has been held hostage to a local insurgency rooted in long-simmering resentments over what it considers to be the central government's exploitative approach...
...police commanders in the southern border provinces of Maysan and Basra, where Al-Faw is located, admit as much, though they say the government's military campaigns in the past three months have dramatically reduced the flow of illegal goods which, in addition to weapons, they say includes drugs, diesel fuel and wanted persons...
...still the most problematic, especially for the more benign, low-profit trade in illegal gasoline. At Al-Faw's small army base, nearly 30 butane gas canisters sit in the back of a truck, which the soldiers say was confiscated that morning. "They filled [the canisters] with diesel fuel for cars and they were taking it to fishermen to sell on the black market," says Al-Faw military commander Colonel Kareem Talaa, as one of his officers pierced the top of a canister with a knife and then tipped it to let a translucent liquid drip...