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SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. petroleum industry may be unable to deliver to all parts of the nation diesel fuel with low enough sulfur content to meet new federal pollution rules, industry executives told a fuels conference here.

William Graves, the former head of Graves Truck Line Inc. and father of American Trucking Associations President Bill Graves died Friday at the age of 90, the Associated Press reported.

The Department of Energy said Monday the national average retail price of diesel fuel rose 5 cents to $2.244 a gallon, breaking the previous record of $2.212 set on Oct. 25.

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The Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee was expected to raise interest rates by another quarter-percentage point to 2.75% when it meets on Tuesday, Reuters reported.

Angelo Torres, the former head of a Chicago’s Hired Truck Program, pleaded guilty Friday to accepting cash in exchange for letting private companies into the $37-million-a-year project, the Associated Press reported.

The average retail price of regular gasoline rose almost 13 cents in the past two weeks to a record $2.10 per gallon as of March 18, according to the Lundberg Survey of stations nationwide.

Auto maker General Motors Corp. will cut its North American white-collar work force by as much as 28% in some areas, the Wall Street Journal reported..

Regional less-than-truckload carrier Central Freight Lines said it posted net losses of $8.9 million or 49 cents a share in the fourth quarter of 2004, and $20.5 million or $1.14 for the full fiscal year.