The government also pledged to supply farmers with high-yield seeds and asked them not to keep any seeds from the current crop because of its poor yield.
And Saudi Arabia, the only country with meaningful spare production capacity, had broken with the OPEC hawks, led by Iran, and pledged to supply additional crude to make up for the Libyan shortfall.
Eni S.p.A., Italy's largest oil company and the biggest oil producer in Libya, also pledged to supply gasoline and diesel fuel on an emergency basis and on credit, to be paid later in crude oil when production resumes.
During a visit by Mrs. Kirchner to Caracas last week Mr. Chávez pledged to supply Argentina with more than 10 million barrels of fuel oil and diesel a year.
Bild also pledged to supply the baddie for every James Bond film, put its clocks back one hour so they would be in the same time zone as Britain, not use suntan lotion out of solidarity with sunburnt Brits, and introduce an EU guideline that bans froth on beer, if Britain votes to remain.
Turkmenistan has pledged to supply natural gas for the planned Nabucco pipeline - a major project that should allow EU countries to rely less on Russian energy in future.
