Lithuania also has several hydro-electric plants in Kaunas along the Neman River and a diesel-oil fueled electricity plant tied into the northwest region of electrical production for the Soviet Union.
The proposed act focuses on the central impediment to energy security: Our transportation sector is virtually entirely powered by oil-derived products (gasoline and diesel fuels) and consumes two-thirds of the oil we use in this country.
He insisted on replacing income tax with a new 1% financial-transactions tax, and on freezing the price of diesel oil, a useful revenue-earner.
At a high temperature and pressure, gasification converts coal, or other carbon fuels, into synthesis gas that is either burned in a turbine to produce electricity, as in Summit's case, or turned into other products, like diesel oil, fertilizer and pipeline-quality natural gas.
Liban Egal, a Somali entrepreneur who grew up in Baltimore in America, has started work with an American-trained chemist to produce bio-diesel from animal fat, which the cattle-herding Somalis normally have in abundance, along with used oil and chemicals.
They fill up their diesel-powered Volkswagen and Dodge pickup with vegetable-based oil.
Although some people make their own diesel at home from leftovers and recycled cooking oil, coffee-based biodiesel seems better suited to larger-scale processes.
The result, if all goes well, will be a mixture of hydrocarbons that can be fed into the stage of the oil-refining process just before petrol and diesel emerge from the stills, and at a price that competes with the equivalent chemical mixture produced by traditional methods.
It carried out an 18-month investigation into the price of petrol, diesel, heating oil and marine diesel.
The prices of refined products like diesel, gasoline and jet fuel, might increase much more sharply than crude-oil futures because of the refining belt that runs along the Gulf.
In the past several days, Moscow has threatened to cut off Estonia's energy supplies in response to the small country's decision to remove a Soviet-era memorial of a Red Army soldier, saying oil, diesel and natural gas deliveries "may be disrupted" starting May 1.
Some think the oil-price spike of 2008 was partly caused by China stockpiling diesel and other fuels in advance of the Olympics.
Yet, our transportation sector remains reliant upon oil - sixty percent of it imported - for the gasoline and diesel fuel on which it runs almost exclusively.
Instead of buying a new gas-guzzling vehicle, convert an old diesel car to run on either biodiesel or vegetable oil.
Downstream activities generally refer to the refining of crude oil and distributing its by-products including gasoline, natural gas, LPG and diesel.
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Before the explosion, the rig carried 2.6m litres of diesel fuel and was pumping 8, 000 barrels (1.27m litres) of crude oil a day - a volume which may still be leaking from the well into the Gulf of Mexico.
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