A motorist holds a fuel pump at a petrol station

Thu Dec 27, 4:19 PM
A motorist holds a fuel pump at a petrol station in Tehran, 2006. Oil prices surged to one-month highs Thursday following the assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, and after the sixth successive weekly decline in US energy reserves. Photo:Behrouz Mehri/AFP

A motorist holds a fuel pump at a petrol station in Tehran, 2006. Oil prices surged to one-month highs Thursday following the assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, and after the sixth successive weekly decline in US energy reserves. Photo:Behrouz Mehri/AFP