Word: dieselized
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...Dartboard heard the diesel rumbling of a shuttle in the shadows nearby, and as it rounded the corner, he spotted a stainless steel miracle—a bike rack, gleaming under the streetlights, affixed to the grill of the nighttime savior. He approached it eagerly, and spotted instructions attached. Pull, drop, heave, slip, stretch, and release. Done. Fifteen seconds later, Dartboard was sitting in the front seat of the shuttle, admiring his handiwork perched on the other side of the windshield...
...Taiwan from developing offensive missiles, going so far as to pressure Taiwan to shut down such a program in the early 1980s. And Taiwan is in the middle of a spirited national debate on an $18 billion proposed purchase of largely defensive hardware from the U.S., which includes eight diesel-electric submarines, 12 P-3C Orion antisubmarine aircraft and Patriot missile defense systems. Taiwan's doves, and even some of its former military officers, oppose the purchase, arguing that it is too expensive and will only raise cross-strait tensions...
...already creating excruciating delays on the roads. But that's only the start of the trouble, says K.T. Ravindran, an urban-planning expert at Delhi's School of Planning and Architecture. Because the electricity supply is unreliable in Gurgaon, says Ravindran, malls will have to run their own diesel-powered generators, which will cause significant pollution. And because the water supply is also shaky, he adds, many of the malls will have to dig wells and suck up groundwater, thus lowering the water table in the region. Such environmental concerns are a key reason to proceed with caution before sanctioning...
...China is already suffering from widespread power blackouts because it can't produce enough electricity to meet booming demand. Faced with production-line shutdowns, many factories are generating their own power with diesel generators, further depleting China's overtaxed supply of petrochemicals. One foreign executive whose company has invested in a power plant in Guangdong province says oil prices are so steep that the venture is now barely turning a profit. It can't raise rates because tariffs are fixed by the government?and the government doesn't want to relax tariffs because that would contribute to inflation. "If prices...
...trying to talk the price of oil down," he says. Saudi Arabia's problem isn't a lack of oil; rather, it needs to modernize its drilling and refining infrastructure. Even then, says Wardell, Saudi Arabia's extra capacity comes in the form of heavy crude - good for making diesel but not the in-demand light, sweet crude that refineries need for gasoline. And so most analysts now predict prices will hit $50 per bbl., a far cry from the less than $10 per bbl. that crude fetched back in 1986. Supply and demand are powerful in theory...