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Oil rose after two days of decreases on optimism that European finance ministers will make progress on the region’s debt crisis, Bloomberg reported.

ATLANTA — T. Boone Pickens renewed his call to convert the nation’s 8 million heavy-duty trucks from diesel fuel to domestically produced natural gas and criticized leaders from both major political parties for not having the “guts” to pass legislation providing tax incentives to help buyers cover the higher cost of the trucks.

Trucking’s growing use of alternative fuels was the focus of separate announcements by Florida companies last week to increase fueling options and the number of compressed natural gas tractors on the road.

U.S. diesel and gasoline prices both declined for the second straight week, the Department of Energy said Oct. 1, as the fuels continued to back away from 11-week surges that drove up prices sharply.

With natural gas use increasing as a transportation fuel, energy companies are moving to export more of the fuel from the United States as they search for more profitable markets, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

UPS Inc. announced the deployment of 40 new hydraulic hybrid package cars.

Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell (R) signed an agreement with Clean Energy Fuels Corp. to allow state and local entities to buy compressed natural gas from Clean Energy for their vehicle fleets.