Ships will have to start burning better grades of fuel, similar to diesel.Such fuels currently cost about 50% more than unrefined "residual" grades, and their prices will surely rise as ship operators scrap with car owners and airlines for the limited amounts that refineries can turn out.
Mr Yanukovych's unrefined ways are duping neither the West nor East.
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY professor Duncan Watts has a wonderful op-ed in today's New York Times about the Eurovision song contest, the "delightfully tacky yet unrefined" competition during which all the countries of Europe submit a pop song that is judged by the citizens of their peer nations.
Even those with the most unrefined palate can taste the difference between a $5 and $25 bottle of wine, but maybe not the difference between a $25 and $50 bottle.
They complain that barriers to China's domestic market mean that India is mostly shipping unrefined minerals and primary goods, getting finished products in return.
"Up from Hindustan come ten, fifteen, twenty thousand caravans bringing slaves, cotton cloth, refined and unrefined sugar and aromatic roots.
"Delightfully Tacky, Yet Unrefined", the billboard said, He could deal with that.
Ships used to burn the cheap, unrefined crud, laden with sulphur and other nasties, that is left over when oil is refined.
Big names and professional productions jostled with smaller outfits and unrefined acts (some of the productions were previews before Edinburgh Festival, for example).
The task was difficult, since political and social conditions were not such as to encourage the development of a viable culture, and the tastes of even the small reading public were unrefined.
Though the songs on the recording were somewhat unrefined, the band's essential musical elements Tucker's fierce, often caterwauling lead vocals and chugging rhythm guitar, as well as Brownstein's jagged lead guitar were already in place.
