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...your story on fuel-efficient hybrid cars, which are propelled by gas engines and electric motors [May 24]: While my Honda Civic hybrid is eco-friendly, that was a secondary concern for me. Every stop at the gas pump now feels like an al-Qaeda fund raiser, but with my hybrid, I'm using only my fair share of U.S. gas production. I'm not lining Osama bin Laden's pockets anymore. MATTHEW MCINTOSH Gretna...
...Pumping Dissent Workers protesting the rising cost of fuel held a general strike in Nigeria, paralyzing the capital Abuja. Union officials claimed the government failed to execute a court order to cut gasoline prices...
...equipment and other goods in order to fill its orders quickly, and one such arrangement has already run into trouble. KBR used Altanmia Commercial Marketing, a Kuwaiti firm with ties to the country's ruling family, rather than the Kuwaiti national oil company, to fill some of its initial fuel orders. That deal is now the subject of an investigation by the Kuwaiti government and is also being looked into by the Pentagon, which says Altanmia's markup--about $1 per gal.--resulted in a $61 million overcharge. Halliburton says it used Altanmia only for fuel orders that...
...free for a year's work. Most were desperate to pay bills, to fix up houses, to send kids to college. For some, it was a patriotic duty. But in Iraq, wearing just a Kevlar jacket and helmet for safety, they found themselves in trucks with no armor, ferrying fuel to U.S. troops. They wielded hammers and cans of ravioli to defend themselves. And they came home with nightmares...
Halliburton and its subsidiary KBR are targets in the political battle at home, but their drivers, men culled from the ranks of the desperate from Texas to New Hampshire, are taking real fire on the ground. Easter-week attacks on KBR's fuel convoys left four dead, bringing the company's death toll to 35, the majority of them drivers. Two drivers remain missing. Another, Thomas Hamill, escaped from his Iraqi captors and returned home to a hero's welcome. Hundreds more drivers have quit early and come back...