They would sometimes navigate to places to restock supplies only to find the entire area, and communities within, cleared by deforestation.
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Utility executives made commitments in the late 1990s to what was supposed to be cheap natural gas, only to see prices spike as supplies tightened, contributing to the California power crisis and sending some companies into bankruptcy.
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Combined with what is being sent to China and Iran, this resumption in supplies will only raise export levels to roughly half of what Turkmenistan is capable of exporting.
Previously the airport was open only to receive emergency supplies.
The Syrian Arab Red Crescent is the only body authorised to distribute food supplies.
Meanwhile, Israel resumed some fuel shipments to Gaza on Wednesday, a week after Palestinian militants shot and killed two Israeli civilian workers at the Nahal Oz fuel terminal -- the only transit route for delivering fuel supplies to Gaza.
According to dealers, the company supplies initially only about 60% of the Goodyear and Dunlop branded tires a store orders, leaving dealers to push another brand even if a consumer wants a Goodyear.
Despite appeals from the international aid community, the Burmese government has allowed only a handful of convoys to deliver supplies to those sheltering in rebel areas.
Many councils are limiting gritting to major roads only as salt supplies are stretched.
Because it supplies energy only intermittently, it can be difficult to integrate into the electric grid.
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However the American consumer subsidizes it more than once because tax dollars must also go to fighting wars to secure the oil supplies not only for America but also for other oil consuming nations and their growing economies.
Neo says it's now the only fish exporter in the world to also sell pet supplies, accounting for 39% of its revenue last year.
Richardson said the emergency stockpile would be used only if there was a disruption in heating fuel supplies and not to control energy prices in the region.
The agency has enough supplies for only about 4m of them, and those are likely to run out in the next three weeks.
Fuji Xerox, which now buys only 3% of its supplies online, reckons that number will jump to 80% once its new system is installed in July.
And not only do we need to look at the ability to stockpile humanitarian supplies to the Syrian people inside their country, but also to be able to assist those that have fled.
The only means to increase fresh water supply, desalination, requires big energy supplies.
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And this would only happen if the Soyuz rockets are not returned to flight before critical supplies of oxygen, water and food run low.
By 2010, according to the World Wildlife Fund, China will be able to meet only half of its demand for industrial wood from domestic supplies.
Weather officials say the cyclone now appears weakening - but the huge effort to rebuild homes and ensure adequate food and medical supplies is only just beginning.
And Saudi Arabia, the only country with much spare capacity, has promised to ensure that the world has adequate supplies.
This franchisee said he has been able to stay afloat only because he sets his own prices and hours and buys supplies from Sam's Club, in violation of company policy.
Mr Cable initially said he could not restrict exports - but lawyers from Leigh and Day, working with Reprieve, subsequently established that no European supplies to the US were being used in medicine - meaning that they were only going to death row.
Supplies of road grit and salt are running low, according to many councils, with only major roads being treated in several places.
Cardiff council said it was only salting a dozen "priority routes" from Thursday evening in a bid to conserve rock salt supplies.
Similarly, plans to cut subsidised supplies of household gas, which is widely stolen, would help government finances only a bit.
New supplies will be hard to come by after the storm destroyed the area's mills, leaving only about a five-day supply of usable rice, locals said.
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