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The Department of Energy said Monday the average U.S. price for retail diesel fuel rose 3.2 cents to $2.212 per gallon. br clear=all>

The Conference Board said Tuesday that its consumer confidence fell to 92.8 in October from a revised 96.7 the month before, the third straight decline and the lowest in seven months..

Canadian customs workers stopped picketing at the U.S.-Canadian border last week, where the action, part of a broader public employee strike, had caused traffic delays.

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Sales of previously owned houses rose 3.1% in September to the third-highest pace on record, the National Association of Realtors said Monday.

Despite hopes that the next generation of diesel engines coming in 2007 would have the same fuel efficiency as current models, early concerns are surfacing that ultra-low-sulfur diesel fuel might actually reduce the new engines’ efficiency as a by-product of the way it is refined.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. t’s heartening to see all the activity in preparation for the next change in U.S. environmental rules covering heavy-duty diesel engines, which will become effective with the 2007 models.

The average retail price of regular gasoline rose 5.18 cents in the past two weeks to $2.04 per gallon on Oct. 22, according to the Lundberg Survey of stations nationwide.

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