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Thursday, 22 May, 2008, 17:40 GMT 18:40 UK

WORLD FUEL CRISIS

LATEST NEWS
Anger at 'token' petrol cut
Motoring groups accuse fuel retailers of "ripping off" consumers after 1p cut in unleaded petrol.

Oil prices surge into new year

Fuel campaigners pause for thought

Fuel convoy rolls on

Fuel rally looks for support

Fuel protesters face exclusion zone

Blair: No more fuel concessions

Fuel convoy legal threat

Brown's gifts fail to placate protesters

In pictures: Fuel protest convoy sets off

FUEL FEATURES
The fuel protesters' story
With the threat of more fuel protests looming, the BBC's Charles Rhodes investigates the claims of those behind the blockades.

Fuel protesters find the road can get rocky

The facts about low sulphur fuel

Desperate measures

Coping on empty

The men behind the fuel protests

UK CRISIS: SEPTEMBER 2000
The blockade that grew
The spread of fuel protest across the UK has surprised many. Mobile phones, e-mail, the internet and traditional media have all helped the rag-bag alliance of protesters tighten their grip.

Eyewitnesses from both sides of the blockade

Blair faces heavy price for fuel gamble

'Crisis? What crisis?'

Why we secretly like a crisis

Government tax claims "spurious"

Q&A: So what can the government do?

Oil companies: where to next?

GLOBAL IMPACT
The world's thirst for oil
Andrew Walker looks at how world oil consumption has grown despite price hikes and increasing energy efficiency in some countries.

Environmental gridlock

Oil prices hurt developing countries

Europe's fuel dilemma

US wary over oil prices

Fuel crisis: The Venezuelan view

UN attacks Europe's fuel policies

BACKGROUND AND ANALYSIS
Could the government cut fuel duty?
It would be expensive and risky to cut fuel duty, the BBC's economics reporter Jenny Scott reports.

UK fuel tax: The facts

Oil companies: Heroes or villains?

Novel ways to beat the blockade

Tips for saving petrol

When buying spirals out of control

OIL ECONOMICS
Oil: New rules of the trading game
Market speculators using sophisticated financial instruments are having an increasing influence on oil prices, endangering world economic stability.

Q&A: Should petrol be cheaper?

Opec: The oil cartel

Q&A: The oil business

Oil markets explained

Alternatives to oil


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