Prices have been pushed up by rising fuel costs as well as by scarcity.

燃料稀缺导致价格高起，从而也拉高了食品价格。

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Along with automobile quantity increase as well as oil resource scarcity, the automobile fuel oil efficiency becomes one of various countries research key.

随着汽车数量的增加以及石油资源的紧缺，汽车燃油经济性成为世界各国研究的重点之一。

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The scarcity of fuel within Iran's borders casts doubt on efforts by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to use oil and gas exports to split off Russia and Asian countries from the U.S. Ahmadinejad recently appeared at a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a China-led group of Asian energy users and exporters, to talk up potential gas pipelines to Pakistan and beyond.

FORBES: Running Dry