An oil company doing business in the region, Genel Energy, began shipping Kurdish oil by truck to Turkey in January.
The German government briefly arrested a man they said had been speaking to the driver of the truck carrying cooking oil that exploded, whom they suspect of being the perpetrator.
Mr. Dudley has even less truck with "peak oil" pessimism.
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Don Spencer, a truck driver for an oil field supply company, hustled to the statehouse after work to hear the panel discuss amending the constitution to make gun possession easier.
From those meetings came heartbreaking and moving portraits of desperate people needing the truck a man who lost his job after falling off an oil rig, an Iraq war veteran, and a Texas-born Latino who needs the truck so he can sell it and pay for veterinary school.
The site says 7.2 percent of the national daily oil consumption is attributed to heavy-duty truck idling.
It owns a 17.1% stake in New Zealand's only oil refinery, more than 200 gas stations and truck stops, pipelines and storage infrastructure.
The big balance in the Rainy Day Fund might also be tapped to help counties in the Eagle Ford and elsewhere in the state to fund the repair and improvement of county roads that are being impacted by the high volume of heavy truck traffic that comes along with rapid oil and gas development.
The reserve is supposed to kick in when bad weather disrupts the delivery of oil, which in New England travels by barge and truck instead of pipelines.
Indeed, the economics of veggie oil are even better for a car than they are for a truck.
In the medium-term if global growth stalls and oil prices decline due to reduced industrial demand, this will likely help truck sales at the expense of car sales.
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The White House and the auto industry teamed up to defeat Senator John McCain and me when we tried to modestly improve car and truck efficiency while cutting pollution and reducing our dependency on foreign oil from nations that support terrorism.
Buy a good hybrid car or light truck and drive it right, and you'll halve your oil use per mile.
With oil prices falling, there may be less urgency with regard to the conversion of old truck engines into fuel-efficient models.
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