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The price of crude oil in New York exceeded a record $50 a barrel on Tuesday as Nigerian rebels threatened oil output and U.S. Gulf of Mexico supplies remained almost a third below normal, Bloomberg reported.

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The price of crude oil neared $50 a barrel in New York, and hit a new record in New York and in London on Monday amid concern rebel attacks in Nigeria would reduce production as U.S. refiners continue to struggle to replenish supplies disrupted by Hurricane Ivan, Bloomberg reported..

HANOVER, Germany — Freightliner LLC has begun a program to voluntarily upgrade 30,000 of the earliest engines that its Detroit Diesel Corp. subsidiary produced beginning with the 2003 model year to comply with new emissions rules in the United States.

Hurricane Jeanne, the fourth storm to hit Florida in six weeks, shut down much of the state and was blamed for at least six deaths, news services reported..

Xata Begins Offering Temperature-Monitoring System • Louisiana Court Shields Off-Road Diesel From Local Tax • DST Names Chung President

The national average retail price for regular gasoline on Friday was $1.91 per gallon, up 5.32 cents during the past two weeks, according to the Lundberg Survey of 8,000 stations nationwide.

In a letter to Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham, American Trucking Associations President Bill Graves said trucking "remains concerned" about record diesel fuel prices, and asked Abraham to "consider loaning U.S. refineries much-needed crude oil from the [Strategic Petroleum Reserve]..

Total orders for durable goods declined 0.5% in August to $195.4 billion, but rose 2.3% when excluding transportation equipment, the Commerce Department reported Friday.