The price Pakistanis now pay at the petrol pump is more or less the market rate, Mr Khan says.
Static electricity could cause a small spark when a petrol pump nozzle is inserted which could in turn ignite fuel vapour in a flash fire.
Petrol pump politics in the US will follow politics in Iraq.
Petrol pump attendant, plumber, bank clerk, insurance salesman, mobile disc jockey are all on his CV, before Dave joined BBC Radio Lancashire in 1998 as co-host of the Rugby League programme.
In a situation that would have been unthinkable a few years ago, a recent training course in Muscat for petrol-pump attendants was oversubscribed five times by Omanis themselves.
Rising oil prices push up the rate of consumer-price inflation not just because people are paying more for petrol at the pump, but because companies must pay more to make and transport the goods they sell.
This week it announced a deal with producers and distributors for a three-month reduction in petrol prices at the pump.
The disappearance of fuel, especially petrol, followed an announcement on Tuesday by the Energy and Water Utilities Authority (Ewura) to reduce retail pump prices of petrol by 9.17 per cent.
Getting fuel often depends on knowing the pump attendant, since petrol is tightly rationed.
This month's fall in inflation also reflects the sharp drop in the price of oil since the start of the year, which has meant falling petrol and diesel prices at the pump.
Mr Blair's message came ahead of a nationwide petrol boycott of garages - "Dump the Pump" - planned for 1 August, which has attracted a huge amount of support via the Internet.
Hence, 42.3% of the pump price - currently averaging 133.19p per litre for petrol - ends up in the government coffers as duty.
America has suffered an especially large rise in petrol prices, because tax makes up a smaller part of the price at the pump than it does in other countries.
Crude-oil costs are a bigger slice of the prices American consumers pay for petrol: lower sales taxes and fuel duties mean swings in oil markets have a bigger effect on pump prices.
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