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The national average price of diesel fuel fell 0.1 cent to $1.717 per gallon, while gasoline hit a new record high, the Department of Energy said Monday.

Manufacturing activity grew in April for the 11th consecutive month, while the overall economy grew for the 30th consecutive month, factory purchasing managers reported Monday through the Institute for Supply Management.

Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta accepted $573 million from the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority as early repayment of a federal loan that was used to launch the project.

U.S. consumers spent more in March, but their faith in the economy fell during April, a pair of reports released Friday said.

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Several truck drivers in California parked their rigs in the middle of some of the busiest highways in the United States to protest high fuel costs in the state, news services reported Friday.

The U.S. economy expanded at an annual rate of 4.2% in the first quarter of 2003, the Commerce Department said in a report released Thursday.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of a coalition of truck and engine manufacturers seeking to overturn rules governing vehicle purchases by private fleets in Southern California, news agencies said. The rules would have required vehicles like buses, garbage and other utility trucks use the lowest emitting engines available.

A small number of vendors to the industry are investigating to see if trucking fleets might some day consider paying for nitrogen rather than using free air to fill up the tires of their rolling stock.

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