What better opportunity could we want than to be able to import fuel from our own continent?

It turned out that importing fuel became one of the most expensive tasks due to continuing damage and sabotage to the Iraqi oil facilities.

There is no reason they should be forced to import fuel, which is one of the Western proposals to limit its nuclear capacity.

Without such a move, the Government, its treasury empty, would not have been able to import fuel.

One reason is that gas taxes, for the most part, are levied when oil companies import fuel into the state and not directly at the pump.

In recent weeks, the costs of importing fuel from Kuwait have risen.

Those problems, including the need to import considerable fuel, he said, led him to arrange new generator leases in late July.

Iraq spent $4 billion to $5 billion in 2005 to import fuel from abroad.

Many people see this as an effort to force Zimbabwe to import fuel from South Africa.

"Money spent on Nigeria's fuel subsidy is unlikely to be the real cost of importing fuel," she said.