Tokyo's nanny-knows-best government has long claimed that pumping petrol is a dangerous business.
PORTS, airports and banks are barely functioning, troops have been called out to pump petrol, strike-bound oil tankers lie at anchor, and exports have all but ceased.
Unable to afford college, he worked in modest jobs, pumping petrol, cutting meat, selling vegetables, and marrying his high-school sweetheart, Erma James, daughter of a coalminer, at the age of 20.
But in the U.S. Lukoil's first battle will be to persuade consumers that their favorite station hasn't been taken over by an outfit pumping petrol of questionable provenance.
The Chinese applied the use of double-piston bellows to pump petrol out of a single cylinder (with an upstroke and downstroke), lit at the end by a slow-burning gunpowder match to fire a continuous stream of flame.
Although feedstock and enzyme prices as well as electricity credits are the principal drivers of bioethanol production, additional factors such as excise duties and distribution costs are significant and can double the final ethanol selling price at the pump (petrol filling station) compared with its initial production cost.
Large stretches of this book read like a code-breaker's manual as Richardson expertly identifies 'testicular buttocks', vaginal mouths and eyes, penile necks, breasts, foreheads, even pump-action petrol pumps.
Six months later, the biofuel is being pumped at Gull Petrol Stations across New Zealand.
The table with our piece on European petrol prices ("Pumped up," September 17th) showed the price of petrol in Swiss francs, not euros.
