A petroleum distributor, Tesoro Alaska, says it will donate $50,000 in fuel to the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, saying a healthy Iditarod is good for Alaska business and tourism.

Domestic supplies of crude oil are at their highest mid-February levels in several years, said Jim Ritterbusch, vice president of trading and research at the Carson Petroleum Company, a Chicago-area petroleum distributor.

For petroleum distributors, iRely offers the Energy Trac in-truck billing system.

After a speech to petroleum distributors here this week, Mr. Wilder told reporters that any effort by either candidate to make race an issue would backfire and lead to defeat.

Mr. Hubbell was also paid by a company controlled by Truman Arnold, a petroleum distributor in Texarkana, Tex., who was the top fund-raiser for the Democratic National Committee in 1995.

"Heating oil is not getting any help from seasonal factors and supplies seem to be building," said Jim Ritterbusch, vice president of trading and research with the Carson Petroleum Company, a Chicago-area petroleum distributor.

Biodiesel can be purchased directly from the supplier, from a petroleum distributor, or from public pumps.

Part time for dynamic local petroleum distributor.

He would also sell off the BR Distributing Company, a Government-owned petroleum distributor that is not now up for sale.

October 28: Japan's Nippon Oil, the country's second largest petroleum distributor and Mitsubishi Oil Company, the sixth-ranking company in the industry, agree to merge as of April 1, 1999.