But overall, I mean, we've had the spikes and ups and downs and fuel economy hit it.
While international sales will remain strong for a while, Venkataraman says, they too will begin to suffer after 2011 as alternative technologies like fuel cells and nuclear hit the market.
Indeed the direct pipeline from the Essar refinery meant that during recent fuel blockades when motorists and public services were hit, the airport received an uninterrupted flow of fuel.
Overall too, automobile demand in India has been hit by increasing fuel prices and high borrowing costs.
The move was aimed at helping India's airlines whose bottomlines have been hit by high fuel prices and interest rates, along with stiff competition.
The spiralling cost of the fuel has also threatened to hit industry and has led to growing political pressure, especially in the US ahead of the Presidential election.
Police and retailers have told the BBC they are seeing an increase in thefts of fuel from forecourts as petrol prices hit record levels.
The company said the rising costs of fuel and raw materials had also hit dairy farmers and this meant it had to pay its suppliers higher prices.
It also means the industry inherently understands that while the reward for a hit is massive, that hit also needs to fuel what are inevitably many misses.
The Voyager was loaded with high-octane fuel and ammunition when it was hit - the survivors of the attack worked with extraordinary bravery to save the ship and rescue their injured shipmates from the flames.
Almost as soon as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency started mandating, in 1975, that vehicle fuel economy be posted on the stickers of new cars, the agency was hit with complaints from drivers: They weren't getting nearly the fuel economy the stickers suggested they should.
The industry has complained loudly about new competition from the Central American Free Trade Agreement, and it's taken a huge hit from the rising cost of fuel.
Another 21% would hit manufacturing jobs for non-fuel related goods.
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When light finally came up, three of the armored vehicles were up-ended in huge crater holes and trenches out there, but the most important thing -- the fuel trucks rolled in, they were not hit, they were not harassed in any way and they managed to deliver their vital supplies, which means the Marines now can push forward.
The relative fuel costs of gas-sippers and plugins would hit parity long before the whole country adopts them.
Japanese auto sales fell for the seventh straight month in March, hit by the expiration of government subsidies for fuel-efficient cars.
He was quoted Tuesday as saying that a longer version of the Airbus double-decker A380 would be a very big hit with his airline, especially with high fuel prices currently causing a major headache.
ReliOn, a fuel-cell manufacturer based in Spokane, WA and focused on emergency-generation applications, reported that one of its customers hit by Hurricane Irene had 56 cell towers with fuel cells installed for backup power.
In 2008, while automakers plodded along with the same old gas-guzzling models as the price at the pump hit record highs, American consumers scrambled for more fuel-efficient vehicles and left the gas-guzzlers to collect dust on the showroom floor.
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Mr Alexander said the government was working to bring in the scheme because people in the remotest parts of the country were hit by a "triple whammy" of high fuel costs, having to drive long distances and having poor public transport.
Airlines, for example, have been hit hard by the surge in the price of jet fuel.
Salt water swamped several large fuel-distribution centers in New Jersey when Sandy's storm surge hit Monday night.
To get the fish, Pacific Andes would advance its Russian suppliers money to cover expenses for fuel, vessels and fishing equipment, thus cementing relationships with a fleet hit hard by the collapse of the Soviet Union.
To get the fish, Pacific Andes would advance its Russian suppliers money to cover expenses for fuel, vessels and fishing equipment, thus cementing relationships with a fleet hit hard finally by the collapse of the Soviet Union.
"This additional tax burden would have hit Northern Ireland businesses hard as they already pay some of the highest fuel prices in the UK, " he said.
This sudden surge in exports of oil distillates, the primary source for motor diesel fuel consumed in the U.S., occurred at the same time diesel prices hit record highs.
The big unknown remains fuel costs and the risk that high prices for petrol, let alone physical supply shortages, will hit consumer spending hard.
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