On Thursday night thousands of people in Jersey were confused and worried when an emergency siren sounded from La Collette fuel farm.
Louis, a fuel-farm fire in Miami and a hailstorm in Dallas that damaged 50 jets.
The farm sector has been handicapped by myriad difficulties, among them a lack of essential inputs, such as fuel, working farm equipment and seeds, and a deplorable distribution system.
Although no major arrests were made, an attempt to steal a large amount of fuel from a Teesdale farm was averted.
That would require every farmer to sustain nearly two city dwellers, which a shortage of fertiliser, farm machinery and fuel precludes.
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The Lithuanians are especially in need of fuel for tractors and other mechanized farm equipment needed for the crucial spring planting.
The justification for that tax exemption is that fuel taxes pay for roads, and the farm equipment that benefits from the tax exemption is not supposed to be using the roads.
The second is a minefield because the technical responses make a rich mix, ranging from "it's not a problem because if you have enough wind turbines they compensate for each other" to "you need a fossil fuel power station on standby for every wind farm".
Beyond that, transportation costs from the farm to distribution centers and retailers will add more fuel to cost escalation.
Nearly all tractor-trailers, delivery vehicles, buses, trains, ships, boats and barges, farm, construction and military vehicles and equipment run on diesel fuel.
The brothers power their farm and cheese factory using an anaerobic digestion system, which turns organic waste into fuel, and cuts down on greenhouse gas emissions.
New farm legislation, handing out billions of dollars in federal government subsidies to American producers, has poured fuel on the flames.
Starting in 2002, receipts from user fees began to drop significantly, thanks largely to the impact of a slower economy and increased sales of gasahol, an Ethanol-based fuel that isn't taxed for the Highway Trust Fund and is heavily subsidized--thanks to the farm lobby and the efforts of Archer Daniels Midland (nyse: ADM - news - people ).
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