Anyway, the president's action may not achieve its chief aim avoiding that winter fuel crisis.
The fuel crisis reflects the mess that the Zimbabwean economy is in, a cautionary tale against state meddling.
So not only are we facing a fuel crisis but the entire chemical industry is likely to cease to exist.
Its first head, Mike Grannatt, says the fuel crisis demonstrated how much disruption could be caused in a highly networked society.
Already the fuel crisis has helped to bring the tension between Mr Blair and Gordon Brown, his chancellor, to the surface.
The survey comes as the SNP hold their annual conference in Inverness and the Labour Government suffers fallout from the fuel crisis.
It was only the fuel crisis that saw them rising sharply again.
Prime Minister Tony Blair has cancelled a regional tour of Yorkshire and is returning to London for emergency meetings on the fuel crisis.
Hilton said September's fuel crisis had held back the performance of some provincial hotels but that its London business performed well, with revenue per available room rising 17.4%.
In a performance which was a mixture of inspiration and plenty of perspiration, he pledged to listen to voters' concerns over issues like pensions and the fuel crisis.
As for his own party, Clarke believes that with a prevailing wind - of which the fuel crisis was just the most recent evidence - things are looking up.
Rather than intervening in the market to manipulate prices, the government could respond to a winter fuel crisis by giving all its heating-oil subsidies to poor consumers (though that would do nothing to win over other voters).
The fuel crisis has coincided not only with the latest reverse for the Millennium Dome the white elephant now indelibly associated with Mr Blair's love of empty monuments but also with the serialisation of a thoroughly plausible account by the Observer's Andrew Rawnsley of the unending, self-destructive feud between the prime minister and his chancellor.
Could this lack of agreement about how to solve the continuing economic crisis fuel the fire and make the crisis worse?
Everything you needed to fuel your existential crisis was found within the grooves of Dark Side of the Moon.
The Mexican bailout helped fuel the East Asian crisis that erupted two years later.
In fact, many large corporates during the crisis added fuel to the fire by extending payment terms with their suppliers in an effort to improve their own working capital metrics and cash positions.
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It has also vowed to fix a power crisis, liberalise fuel prices and otherwise improve the economy.
Fuel prices, the farming crisis, taxes, inner city regeneration, the peace process, which of these, I wonder aren't 'real' issues, or don't affect everyday life?
As the economic crisis unfolded, and fuel prices sky rocketed, DRYS stock price went on a journey in the other direction.
Yeah, the one which portrays high priest Albert Gore as a sinister figure who brainwashes penguins and bores movie audiences by blaming the Mideast crisis on evil fossil fuel use.
ECB's broad acceptance of collateral before the crisis may actually have added fuel to the fire.
Interestingly, while Argentina faces an energy crisis, experts think that fuel-oil imported from Venezuela cannot resolve the Argentinean energy problem in the long run and scarcely in the short run.16 It seems Kirchner has become an ally of Hugo Chavez because he feels that he represents a new spirit in Latin America.
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First, an oil-supply shock resulting from an Iranian crisis, say would send fuel prices sharply up again and wipe out profits.
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Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki blamed insurgent attacks on refineries, pipelines, and fuel convoys as the main reason for the current crisis.
In a further sign of the crisis, the oil ministry has stopped selling fuel to some airlines over unpaid bills.
Houston-based Continental Airlines (nyse: CAL - news - people ) announced Thursday it would cut 3, 000 jobs and reduce capacity by 11% because of record fuel costs that have pushed the industry into its worst crisis since Sept. 11, 2001.
The four-year embargo on weapons and fuel has been broken with ease, contributing to the current crisis.
Hauliers picketing refineries in 2000 created the first serious crisis for Tony Blair's government - with fuel running out at petrol stations.
An external shock in the shape of higher oil prices also adversely affected companies exposed to fuel costs during the early stages of 2011, as a crisis in Egypt put pressure on oil prices.
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