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Petrolworld is a trade media brand in the petroleum downstream and convenience retail markets world-wide. Its reputation has been built in the developing markets of Asia, Africa and Middle East. It brings together an international network of specialist people and products that are focused on petrol and convenience retailing. The organization is divided into Business Forum Events and online publishing.

PetrolWorld Global News Service (www.petrolworld.com) is an online service with visitors from 145 countries around the world.

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What’s with the orange button?

If you’re wondering what the orange little means, don't worry - most people don't know either (yet). XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a programming language used to “describe data.” The orange button is meant to inform the reader that it serves as a link to a page containing XML.

In this case it’s being used to provide you instant news updates from www.petrolworld.com and is intended to be read by an RSS reader. RSS is a scripting language that conforms to XML standards. There appears to be no universal definition for the acronym, but the three most common ones are “Really Simple Syndication,” “Rich Site Summary,” and “RDF Site Summary.” RDF stands for Resource Description Framework. If you clicked on the button and saw a bunch of code jargon and some text, what you saw was the code behind an RSS feed.

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Senator introduces bill that would require temperature compensation

U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) on Aug. 3 introduced the F.A.I.R. (Future Accountability In Retail) Fuel Act that would require the installation of automatic temperature compensating equipment in all retail gas station pumps within six years to adjust the price of gas as it expands due to warmer temperatures.

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NPN/SIGMA Education Alliance

New for 2005 is NPN’s alliance with the Society of Gasoline Marketers of America (SIGMA) to deliver educational offerings to petroleum and convenience marketers. A primary goal of the new alliance is to provide the highest quality educational

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