The broken refineries were gradually put back in order at the same time that a weak economy and high pump prices finally induced drivers to consume less.
Sky-high levies at the pump, not innate environmental virtues, is what gets European drivers to buy such small, high-mileage vehicles.
But, our elected leaders seem to be sitting by idly while the average person deals with sky-high prices at the pump.
If the price of crude continues to rise, investing in oil firms might just be the best way to offset those high prices at the pump.
Under his leadership, the company eliminated and sold under-performing brands, brought back the best-selling Taurus nameplate, invested heavily in social media and digital marketing efforts, and developed new fuel-efficient models to counteract high prices at the pump.
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Not so in Europe, where pump prices remained high, and diesel's 30% better fuel economy and greater torque won a loyal following.
Motorola's Atrix 4G phone will have a sure-to-be-fast dual-core processor inside, allowing it to pump out 1080p high-definition video through an HDMI port.
During periods of high demand, the heat pump runs in reverse as a heat engine, expanding and cooling the argon and generating electricity.
While gas is down 25% since the summer, the pump price remains high by recent standards, and the Consumer Confidence Index has wobbled down since spring.
All over the world, telecoms and cable companies are fighting to provide people's houses with a broadband pipe that can pump in a high-speed Internet feed and the whole digital future.
And whether that's increasing oil and gas production, increasing investments and sustaining investments in alternative energy, the need to highlight this I think is apparent in this time when we are facing high gas prices at the pump.
With the price of oil so high, firms are scrambling to pump it out of ever more remote and costly crevices.
One early discovery: It's cheaper and easier to pump in the seawater during high tide.
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It is powered by an engine which drives a hydraulic pump to send oil under high pressure around its plumbing in order to animate its limbs.
Highlights of the new software include System Match technology with features such as True Radiant and Heat Pump Balance geared to help high-efficiency, non-conventional (i.e. not forced air) heating systems perform even more efficiently.
With some signaling and a graceful fist-pump, he launched the hawk high into the sky, where it hovered for a moment searching for its target, then dove to where the fake bunny was tucked into the wood.
She worried about her sump pump failing if she loses power around high tide.
To prevent this, milk is forced under extreme pressure and at high velocity to pass through tiny passages by a piston pump.
It signals a winding down of the pump-priming policy brought in to maintain high economic growth in the wake of the Asian financial crisis of 1997.
Still, Mr. Louboutin occasionally takes it to the edge: His "Fetish Ballerine" of 2007 has a heel so high, about 10 inches, that it turns a black pump into a pointe shoe.
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In ten minutes, the fire circled the house, and he climbed up to the belvedere to track its progress as it burned to the ditches surrounding his tract, taking out the pump house and a tractor shed, and incinerating his Dodge, which burned hot and high, killing most of the foliage of the live oak shading it.
On the economy, Bush's program of granting incentives to high-income brackets to drive investment and boost demand and job growth might just succeed in priming the pump.
Look, the price at the pump, while it's lower now than it was at this time last year, is still high.
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