Despite fuel price increases that affect all carriers equally, Southwest still maintains a 35% cost advantage per mile.
Five locations with the lowest fuel price options will be listed first, with the ability to list additional sites.
The US and the International Monetary Fund have criticised the Pakistani government's decision to reverse a recent fuel price rise.
Many fuel-centric companies, however, are not aware of the magnitude and persistence of the problem related to fuel price volatility.
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The government has said it will compensate for the fuel price rise by increasing public sector wages and freezing utility bills.
We forecast declines beyond 2012 as we expect that the entry of ARM-based players in PC microprocessor market will fuel price competition.
While consistently high prices are the most obvious problem, the greatest challenge the new normal creates for fuel-centric companies is fuel price volatility.
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The application, U.S. Fuel Price Mapping, provides drivers directions to gas stations with the lowest prices in the surrounding area from a mobile device.
So far the fuel price decline has offset about half the earnings impact of a drop in Royal Caribbean's third-quarter bookings from the year-earlier level.
Dirty habits die hard and the only way to encourage auto makers to adopt clean technology is a short sharp shock in the fuel price.
Since almost everything that is bought and sold in Ghana is affected by the fuel price, this has added about 10% to the inflation rate.
The question for the long term was, he explained, how to get off the "fossil fuel price escalator" with energy sources including renewable and nuclear.
Shares in Delta Airlines fell after the airline reported earnings that were soft of the analyst expectations, as strong fuel price pressure squeezed profits in the third quarter.
The good news is that the total fuel price will be only about five times more (rather than 9 times) after it is mixed with the standard stuff.
The additional nuclear power plants would also have the advantage of being less vulnerable to fuel price changes than coal or gas-fired generation, helping to enhance the security of electricity supplies.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani received a warm welcome as he met Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) party leaders on Friday to see if his fuel price reversal could entice the party back into government.
They might also be reading documents from the International Monetary Fund, the US Energy Department, the OECD (the richer country's economic club) or from the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), with its Fossil Fuel Price Projections.
And all this despite fuel-price rises that have outweighed the weakness of the euro.
Although the fuel-price rise was withdrawn, it prompted other price rises across the economy, many of which have not been reversed.
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It will manage fuel-price risk with hedging better than the competition.
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On the other hand, too lax policy, such as keeping the real deposit rate deeply negative, could fuel asset price bubbles that, by definition, eventually burst.
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It was Carlyle that worked with the White House to buy a Philadelphia oil refinery in September, saving 850 union jobs and averting a fuel-price increase in the Northeast.
India's ruling Congress party said it won't reverse a decision to let foreign supermarkets invest in the country, but it might be willing to partially roll back recent fuel-price increases.
Over the years, I've heard repeatedly from small business owners who sell in the eBay marketplace and other online channels that expanding Internet sales taxes to all transactions would hurt their ability to grow or create jobs and to fuel the price and service competition that creates value for consumers.
Some mortgage firms have radically loosened their lending policies in recent years, helping fuel the house price boom.
First there must be plenty of liquidity to fuel the asset price rise.
After all, guzzling petrol leads to clogged roads, and it seems to make sense to price fuel to reflect that cost to society.
The rising price of fuel is largely a result of an imbalance between supply and demand.
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