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The short answer to this question is that a trademark can become a brand. Even if you're business is local, a brand name is important not only from a marketing but also a customer perception basis.

When many people think government business registration documents, they naturally think patents. General copyrights which establish ownership of certain types of property like writings, music etc. Trademark registration however is used to establish ownership rights to a specific design, character, lettering style or combinations and of all these into 1 single general identifying mark.

Good examples of Trademarked products would be the NIKE swoosh or McDonalds Golden Arches. These trademarked designs are readily identifiable with the company using them. Trademarks, Servicemarks and other official registrations are good because they establish ownership. That is, you simply could not open up a fast food restaurant and use the McDonalds
If you're considering a trademark, the first thing to do is a quick check to make certain what you want to register is even available.

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There are many trademarks of obscure companies that may be similar enough to your idea to create confusion and a potential problem. This research can be done by several methods including the use of a patent and trademark attorney. A better approach, especially if you're a small company or one starting out, is to simply contact the federal government and request information on the process steps. The first stop on your journey should be http://www.uspto.gov to get the latest information and process to follow.

Be advised that the federal government is pushing for paperless transactions whenever possible. Their current fees to process a trademark application is 325 dollars if filed

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In addition to the application and fee, a drawing must be presented showing your design and proposed trademark. You should also be prepared to have examples of how you're using the proposed trademark - Servicemarks currently in your business. If approved, you will then have the exclusive ownership of that particular design.

Trademark is a very important part of your company. It differentiates your company from the rest that are in the same category or with those that have identical or almost the same name as your company. It also differentiates you from companies that bear a logo or company seal that represents your establishment. Nowadays, jingles are also used to uniquely distinguish a company.

With the introduction of the Internet, you can now make inquiries online by going to the website of the States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). In this website, you can search for existing trademarks to make sure that the trademark you plan to use is unique and can distinguish you from other companies.

Within the USPTO website, you can find the Patent and Trademark Depository Library that can be downloaded. One document that could be of important use to you is the List of Acceptable Identification of Goods, which is a list of terms used to recognize the terms that you might need to know to identify your products. There is also a list of deleted names and terms that could come in handy. Documents that can help you with basic facts about trademarks are also a good source of information.

When you do file for your application, it is worth it to visit the Trademark Application and Registrations Retrieval (TARR) system that will help you keep track of the progress of your application. With many applications being filed everyday, you wouldn’t want your application to be left in a large pile that has been submitted for approval.

Applications for trademark are subjected to outmost scrutiny before they are approved. So best be prepared to know what to do to get the trademark you want.

The benefits of having an easily recognizable Servicemarks cannot be denied. Go anywhere around the world and even if you cannot read the language, a familiar red can with silver ribbons will announce and identify the drink in the container as Coke, the real thing! How much more valuable would your business be if you had a service mark as distinctive and as easily recognizable as a can of Coca-Cola?

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Hoarding Nations Drive Food Costs Ever Higher

BANGKOK — At least 29 countries have sharply curbed food exports in recent months, to ensure that their own people have enough to eat, at affordable prices.

When it comes to rice, India, Vietnam, China and 11 other countries have limited or banned exports. Fifteen countries, including Pakistan and Bolivia, have capped or halted wheat exports. More than a dozen have limited corn exports. Kazakhstan has restricted exports of sunflower seeds.

The restrictions are making it harder for impoverished importing countries to afford the food they need. The export limits are forcing some of the most vulnerable people, those who rely on relief agencies, to go hungry.

“It’s obvious that these export restrictions fuel the fire of price increases,” said Pascal Lamy, the director general of the World Trade Organization.

And by increasing perceptions of shortages, the restrictions have led to hoarding around the world, by farmers, traders and consumers.

“People are in a panic, so they are buying more and more — at least, those who have money are buying,” said Conching Vasquez, a 56-year-old rice vendor who sat one recent morning among piles of rice at her large stall in Los Baños, in the Philippines, the world’s largest rice importer. Her customers buy 8,000 pounds of rice a day, up from 5,500 pounds a year ago.

The new restrictions are just an acute symptom of a chronic condition. Since 1980, even as trade in services and in manufactured goods has tripled, adjusting for inflation, trade in food has barely increased. Instead, for decades, food has been a convoluted tangle of restrictive rules, in the form of tariffs, quotas and subsidies.

Now, with Australia’s farm sector crippled by drought and Argentina suffering a series of strikes and other disruptions, the world is increasingly dependent on a handful of countries like Thailand, Brazil, Canada and the United States that are still exporting large quantities of food.

On a recent morning here in Bangkok, sweaty and heavily tattooed dock workers took turns grabbing 120-pound sacks of rice from a conveyor belt and carrying them on their heads to cranes that whisked the sacks deep into the hold of a freighter bound for the Philippines. Most of the one million tons of rice that leaves the dock here each year follows the same spine-crushing routine.

“I’ve been here 28 years,” said the assistant port manager, Suchart Wuthiwaropas. “This is the busiest ever.”

Powerful lobbies in affluent countries across the northern hemisphere, from Japan to Western Europe to the United States, have long protected farmers in ways factory workers in Detroit could only dream of.

The Japanese protect their rice industry by making it nearly impossible for imported rice to compete. The European Union severely limits beef and poultry imports, and Poland goes further, barring soybean imports as well.

Or is it best to seek self-sufficiency in every type of food that will, weather permitting, grow within a country’s borders?

The usual answer from economists, and the United States’ position for decades, is that the world benefits most if every country specializes in growing (or servicing or making) what it can most efficiently, and trading for the rest.

Rainfall and other limits make it prohibitively difficult for some countries to grow all their own food. “If Egypt had to be self-sufficient in food, there would be no water left in the Nile,” Mr. Lamy said in a telephone interview.

“If every country in the world decided it wanted to produce its own food for consumption,” Ms. Schwab said, “there would be less food in the world, and more people would be hungry.”

But relying on food imports becomes much dicier if other countries are prepared to shut off the tap.

An obscure rule of the World Trade Organization requires members to notify the agency when they restrict food exports. But there are no penalties for ignoring the rule, and not one of the countries that has imposed restrictions in the past year has complied, according to the W.T.O.

Japan and Switzerland are leading a group of food-importing nations so alarmed by restrictions that they are seeking an international agreement preventing countries from unilaterally limiting food exports. The agreement would be part of the current, already-rocky Doha round of trade talks, named for the city in Qatar where negotiations began.

But the proposal ran into a procedural snag right off: food export restrictions are such a new issue that they are only tangentially mentioned as part of the Doha round agenda, which is not easily modified.

In some of the nations concerned about shortages now, past policies have discouraged farming. From Indonesia to West Africa to the Caribbean and Central America, poor countries have frequently cut farm assistance programs and lowered tariffs to balance budgets and avoid charging high prices to urban consumers. But they have found that their farmers cannot compete with imports from rich countries — imports that are heavily subsidized.

As a result, steps that could have taken place decades ago, resulting in more food for the world today, were abandoned. These included changes like irrigation schemes and new crop varieties.

“The subsidies given by developed countries to their farmers have led to lack of investment in agriculture in developing countries” in Africa and elsewhere, Mr. Nath said.

To make matters worse, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund frequently pressured poor countries in the 1980s and 1990s to lower tariffs and to cut farm support programs, mostly to reduce budget deficits.

Indeed, the World Bank concluded in 2006 that not enough attention had been paid to the negative effects of its policy prescriptions on farmers in developing countries.

The current export restrictions, which mainly help urban consumers in poor countries, are the latest blow to farmers in the developing world.

Arfa Tantaway Mohamed, who grows rice on three-quarters of an acre outside the bustling town of Aga in northern Egypt, is frustrated at Egypt’s export ban, which is suppressing rice prices.

“For sure it has a negative impact,” said Mr. Mohamed, 50, as he smoked a Cleopatra brand cigarette during a break from working his fields, while 18 members of his extended family labored nearby.

Some countries reject the notion that restricting exports has pushed up prices on the world market, and point instead to higher prices for fertilizer, diesel and other farm expenses. India takes that position, but so does Thailand, in defending sharp markups in prices set by its Rice Exporters Association.

“The main cause of rising rice prices is the rising cost of rice planting,” said Surapong Suebwonglee, the finance minister of Thailand, the world’s largest rice exporter.

India and other countries, as well as some nonprofit groups, are quick to point out that economic arguments — that countries specialize in the production of whatever they can make most efficiently — are unconvincing, as long as rich countries heavily subsidize their farmers.

In fact, negotiators have a rough framework for a possible compromise on agriculture in the Doha round talks, including deep cuts in farm subsidies.

One possible compromise not being discussed in the Doha round may be for countries to continue relying on trade for most food imports, but hold bigger reserves in case of crises. World rice reserves, for example, have plunged to 9 weeks’ worth of consumption, from 19 as recently as 2001.

But United Nations officials are wary.

“I would not object to building up reserves,” said Supachai Panitchpakdi, the secretary general of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. “But like foreign exchange reserves, some countries go to huge extremes.”

Negotiators have been working for years to free trade in farm goods, but today’s crisis actually makes that more difficult for them. Food protests in places like Haiti and Indonesia that rely heavily on imported food have convinced many nations that it is more important than ever that they grow, and keep, the food their citizens need.

“Every country must first ensure its own food security,” said Kamal Nath, the minister of commerce and industry in India, which has barred exports of vegetable oils and all but the most expensive grades of rice.

But as the United States trade representative, Susan C. Schwab, noted in a telephone interview, “One country’s act to promote food security is another country’s food insecurity.”

International relief groups are trying to help people who can no longer afford food at today’s higher prices, but it is not easy. “We’re having trouble buying the stocks we need for emergency operations,” said Josette Sheeran, executive director of the World Food Program in Rome.

Restrictions have delayed efforts to ramp up feeding programs in Somalia and Afghanistan. The food program had long purchased grain from Pakistani traders or national stocks. When Pakistan imposed a ban on most wheat exports this spring, the food program was forced to find a new supplier, creating months-long delays.

“We had to slow down the scale-up of our operation as a result of having to redesign our supply lines,” said Ramiro Lopes da Silva, director of transport and procurement. “That means on the ground there were beneficiaries that went without rations or went without full rations for a portion of time. In the case of Afghanistan, some didn’t get into the program.”

The current dispute over food exports highlights choices that nations have confronted for centuriesgrows best in a country’s soil, and trade it for all other food needs — or even, perhaps, specialize in services or manufacturing, and trade those for food?.

miércoles, 25 de junio de 2008

Supreme Court Rejects Death Penalty for Child Rape

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled, 5 to 4, on Wednesday that sentencing someone to death for raping a child is unconstitutional, assuming that the victim is not killed.

“The death penalty is not a proportional punishment for the rape of a child,” Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote for the court. He was joined by Justices John Paul Stevens, David H. Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen G. Breyer.

The dissenters were Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr., generally regarded as the conservative wing of the tribunal.

Not since 1964 has anyone been executed in the United States for a crime other than murder, and of about 3,300 inmates now on death row, only two are facing execution for an offense that did not involve a killing — and both of those inmates are in Louisiana. Patrick Kennedy, was sentenced to death for the rape of his 8-year-old stepdaughter and the other is Richard Davis, who was condemned for assaulting a 5-year-old girl.

The case of Kennedy v. Louisiana, No. 07-343, was the latest in a series in which the justices have weighed particular applications of capital punishment. In 2002, for instance, the Supreme Court barred the execution of mentally retarded defendants, and in 2005 it banned the execution of people for crimes they committed before they were 18.

But, as Chief Justice Roberts observed when Kennedy v. Louisiana was argued on April 16: “This is quite different. It is focused on the nature of the offense.” Indeed, a theme that ran through the argument was that, while the death penalty is a punishment like no other, the rape of a child is a crime like no other.

In 1977, the Supreme Court banned death sentences for rape. But the victim in that case, Coker v. Georgia, was a young married woman, and the ruling did not specifically discuss the rape of a child. Over the past 13 years, several states have reacted to public outrage over crimes against children by amending their statutes to make the rape of a child punishable by death.

Louisiana was the first state to do so, amending its death-penalty law in 1995 to include rape of a child under the age of 12. But unlike Louisiana, the other states with similar provisions (Georgia, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas) generally limit the death penalty to defendants previously convicted of sex crimes against children.

Mr. Kennedy’s lawyer, Jeffrey L. Fisher, argued before the justices that it was “at odds with national values” for the state to execute his client, who had never committed such a crime before.

But Justice Scalia pressed Mr. Fisher on that assertion, noting that the recent trend has been “more and more states permitting the capital punishment” for the rape of a child.

As for the case at hand, Juliet L. Clark, an assistant district attorney from Gretna, La., countered that Mr. Kennedy, who weighs 300 pounds, had committed “a very savage rape” that caused serious injuries to his victim. And R. Ted Cruz, the Solicitor General for the State of Texas, who argued as a “friend of the court” on the side of Louisiana, said that Mr. Kennedy (like Mr. Davis, the other child-rape defendant on Louisiana’s death row) had “committed crimes that are just unspeakable.”

Responding to a question from Justice Ginsburg, Ms. Clark said the Louisiana child-rape law could apply regardless of the sex of the criminal or that of the victim.

And in support of her argument that crimes against children have long been viewed with special revulsion, and as deserving of special punishment, Ms. Clark pointed out that the Supreme Court ruled in 1990 that states can make it a crime to possess child pornography even in one’s home.

That ruling, in Osborne v. Ohio, carved out an exception to a 1969 Supreme Court ruling that the Constitution protects the possession of obscene material in the privacy of one’s residence. Justice Byron R. White wrote for the 6-to-3 majority in the Osborne case, reasoning that Ohio was justified in trying to “destroy a market for the exploitative use of children.”

Of the current Supreme Court, only Justices Scalia, Kennedy and Stevens took part in the 1990 Osborne decision. Justices Scalia and Kennedy were in the majority; Justice Stevens joined with Justices William J. Brennan Jr. and Thurgood Marshall in finding the Ohio law to be unconstitutionally broad.

martes, 24 de junio de 2008

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argentina trademark: Government agency in charged of keeping a public record of registered trademarks in Argentina is INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE LA PROPIEDAD INDUSTRIAL (INPI). Denominative, figurative or combined Trademarks for goods and services can be registered in Argentina. Goods and services to be protected in a trademark application should be classified in accordance with the International Classification of goods of Nice

Dad and daughter are in the Army now

Future soldier Gabrielle Alejandrino slowly does a set of crunches -- up and down on the damp soccer field at Coral Springs Park, urged on by her unusually close Army buddy.

''C'mon, baby, c'mon, baby,'' he says, his green eyes sparkling.

For some new Army recruits, being called 'baby' would be demeaning.

But for Gabrielle, who's 18, it's comforting. Her Army buddy is her dad, Mario, and she is his only daughter.

In what Army recruiters describe as a rare move, the father and daughter enlisted this month to become first-time soldiers.

Thursday, they head out together for basic training. To prepare for combat drills, they've been working out at the park with other recruits and soldiers.

''We're gone. We're out of here,'' Mario Alejandrino, 36, said. ``A new life is ahead of us. Luckily, we're doing it together.''

When they ship out to begin their five-year commitments, they'll leave the rest of their family in West Broward. Alejandrino's former wife Karina will take care of their two sons -- Gabrielle's brothers -- Jonathan, 15, and Joseph, 12.

Karina Alejandrino said when the two told her of their decision, she was a little shocked and apprehensive.

''We're going through a war and you hear the worst, and she's my baby girl,'' she said. But their excitement, and the fact that they're going together, reassured her. ``I trust him with her.''

THE WAR . .

The Alejandrinos will train together, first basic combat training at Fort Jackson, S.C., then advanced training in satellite and radio communications at Fort Gordon, Ga.

After that, the Army decides where they go -- and whether they go together. They've discussed the strong possibility of being sent to fight in a war abroad.

''The war and leaving our family, my kids, behind is the roughest part,'' Alejandrino said. ``But everything else, she's with me and it's a career.''

They have not broached the subject of fighting in a war and not coming back.

''We'll cross that bridge if we get to it,'' he said.

CHANGED LIVES

Joining the Army has meant major changes for both father and daughter.

Alejandrino, whose parents come from Puerto Rico and Colombia, recently left his job at a South Florida insurance agency.

Gabrielle, who was born in California and grew up in South Florida, just graduated from Coral Springs Charter School.

Both have hopes of earning a college degree through their Army career, Alejandrino in the biomedical engineering field and Gabrielle in telecommunications.

Alejandrino talks about the Army with a nearly giddy excitement. College has long been a goal, but one that seemed out of reach.

Gabrielle had the idea first. Last year, the she came home from school wearing a military beanie and talking ''Army, Army, Army,'' her dad said.

He was not thrilled. Plan A for Gabrielle was college.

That plan didn't work out, as she was wait-listed. Eager to start college, she thought the Army was the quickest route.

About the same time, Mario Alejandrino started considering the Army for himself.

He visited a recruiting office in Margate.

He called Gabrielle, and together they discussed it. ''We made all these plans and goals right then and there,'' she said.

ALL IN THE FAMILY

Within a matter of weeks, they took the entry exam together, signed the Army contract and swore the pledge at Dolphin Stadium in a ceremony with about 100 other new recruits. Next up: 29 weeks of training together.

''It gives me a sense of security that I know he's there,'' Gabrielle said. ``It just makes me feel better.''

Sometimes, students' decisions to join the military raise questions, said Jennifer Canals-Diaz, assistant principal at Coral Springs Charter School. That didn't happen with Gabrielle.

''When Gabrielle makes a decision, she puts a lot of thought into it, not like a typical high school senior,'' Canals-Diaz said.

In his six years recruiting, Sgt. Shawn Rose has never seen a father and daughter enlist together.

''I see maybe fathers who've been in the military for a long time and then their sons or daughters try to follow in their footsteps,'' Rose said. Also common are siblings who sign up together.

The Army does not track the enlistment of parents and offspring, Army spokesman Harvey Spigler said.

In recent years, the U.S. military has struggled to meet its recruiting goals. It has raised signing bonuses and the maximum age for new volunteers to the forces, stretched thin between two wars abroad.

Last year, South Florida Army recruiters met 88 percent of their target, about 260 soldiers short. The region is on track to meet its goal this year, Spigler said.

For the Alejandrinos, ''Army Strong'' may become a new family tradition. Alejandrino hopes his two younger sons and maybe nieces and nephews consider the military.

''Hopefully, they'll get motivated, join up with us later on,'' he said.

PROS AND CONS

They know there are risks, but the Alejandrinos say the benefits outweigh them.

Still, he worries about his daughter being sent to war.

''I worry like any other parent would. . . . She's my only daughter,'' he said, adding that Army policy keeps women from the front line.

He may sit down with his daughter and talk about the risk of dying in a war before they ship out.

Or he may save that father-daughter talk for later.

''We're trying to think positive,'' Alejandrino said.

International Briefing

TORONTO --

CANADA

$35B BUYOUT OF BCE GETS OK

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday that the $35 billion leveraged buyout of BCE -- the LBO in Canadian history -- can go ahead.

The high court overturned a lower court ruling that the sale of the telecommunications holding company to the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan and its minority U.S. partners wasn't in the interests of bondholders.

BCE's subsidiaries include Bell Canada and other regional carriers.

BELGIUM

EU INSPECTORS RAID COMPANIES

BRUSSELS -- European Union antitrust authorities have raided several producers of household detergents as part of a cartel investigation, the EU said Friday.

The raids took place over three days, the European Commission said in a statement without naming any of the companies.

It said, however, that they included ``several producers of consumer detergents such as washing machine and dishwasher detergents, and laundry softeners.''

LEADERS TO STUDY

LOWER FUEL TAXES

BRUSSELS -- European Union leaders called Friday for studies on ways to cut taxes on fuel and ease the pain of more costly oil for consumers.

Europeans pay some of the world's highest gas pump prices to fill up their cars at an average of 9 euros ($14) a gallon. About half of that is sales tax and excise duty.

GERMANY

CHEMICAL FIRM PLANS STOCK SPLIT

FRANKFURT -- German chemical company BASF SE said Friday it will carry out a two-for-one stock split next week, a move that it said was designed to make its shares available to a wider range of investors. BASF said the split, approved in April, will take place on June 27.

CHINA

U.S. STEEL INDUSTRY CLAIMS VICTORY

U.S. steel pipe manufacturers, who have been battling a surge in imports from China, won a major victory Friday when the International Trade Commission cleared the way for the imposition of stiff penalty tariffs for the next five years.

The commission voted 5-0 that the U.S. industry was being harmed by the import of circular steel pipe.

The decision marked the first time a U.S. industry has won a decision to impose tariffs on a Chinese product based on the argument that the Chinese government was unfairly subsidizing a Chinese industry.

SWITZERLAND

UBS TO DISCLOSE CLIENTS IN PROBE

GENEVA -- Swiss bank UBS AG said Friday that it will disclose any instances in which rich American clients may have broken U.S. tax reporting rules by channeling assets through offshore shell companies.

The disclosure comes after the Zurich-based bank said it was cooperating with a U.S. investigation into whether its employees helped clients evade taxes from 2000 to 2007.

The investigation centers on 20,000 UBS clients in the United States who are required to fill out a supplementary tax form giving foreign banks their American tax identification number if they hold any U.S. securities in their accounts abroad.

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S. Florida home prices drop to 2004 levels

Miami Herald staff and wire report

A closely watched index shows South Florida housing prices dropped in April to levels not seen since 2004.

The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller home price index for the Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach metro area fell by 26.7 percent in April versus last year.

The index of 20 major metro areas nationwide fell by 15.3 percent in April versus last year. That marks the largest drop since its inception in 2000 and the first time all 20 metro areas posted annual declines.

Prices nationwide are at levels not seen since August 2004.

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lunes, 23 de junio de 2008

Oil Prices Rise After Saudi Meeting

JIDDA, Saudi Arabia — A hastily convened global energy summit meeting led by Saudi Arabia ended largely in disagreement on Sunday, with only a modest pledge of increased production by the Saudis and no resolution on what other practical steps should be taken to ease the crisis over soaring oil prices.

On Monday, the global oil market shrugged off the news, pushing up prices. Oil was up $1.57, to $136.93 a barrel, in New York at noon.

The Saudis, who considered the meeting a success because of the high attendance, announced a production increase of 200,000 barrels a day and an expansion of their output capacity if needed in coming years.

But news of the immediate production increase had already been absorbed by the world market for oil. Some experts had anticipated that the Saudis might announce a bigger increase.

Saudi Arabia, the biggest oil exporter, is the only country with the ability to significantly increase production quickly.

Rather than finding areas of agreement, participants in the one-day meeting in this coastal city on the Red Sea illustrated the sharply diverging views on what has caused oil prices to double in the last year to the $130- to $140-a-barrel range.

Consumer nations, led by the Britain, Japan and United States, see more supply as the answer to higher prices. But most producing nations are either reluctant to or unable to pump more oil, and they say a big reason for the price inflation is speculation. Everyone agreed that surging demand in the developing world was a major factor.

That point was punctuated last Thursday when China, the world’s fastest-growing consumer of oil, announced it was sharply raising the subsidized prices that its own citizens pay. The price of oil temporarily dropped more than 3 percent on that news alone because of expectations that demand from China would slow.

But the overall demand for oil by China, India and other rapidly developing nations, including many in the Middle East, is still expected to grow relentlessly, putting enormous pressure on producers to keep pace.

If anything, the Saudi summit meeting made plain the limited options available to push prices down.

For King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, who called for the meeting just two weeks ago, it was an opportunity to show that his oil-rich kingdom was aware of growing anger and frustration caused by surging prices in oil-importing countries. It also reflected some alarm by the Saudis that the price inflation was causing consumer nations to look far more seriously at energy alternatives, which eventually could hurt the price of oil.

The crisis is also becoming a central issue in the American presidential race, where arguments over who is to blame for high oil prices echoed some of what was heard at the Saudi summit meeting.

President Bush has supported calls by Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, to allow for more drilling off the coast of the United States. Senator Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee, opposes more offshore drilling and has called for a crackdown on market speculators, whom he blamed for pushing up prices.

The question of whether speculators are influencing prices is expected to get closer scrutiny this week in Washington, where a Senate committee led by Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, the Connecticut independent and former Democrat who supports Mr. McCain, will hold hearings on the price swings in the crude oil market.

The oil summit meeting here was attended by energy ministers from 35 nations, who convened in a vast ballroom and listened as King Abdullah said he understood the pain that $140 oil was causing.

But King Abdullah and Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain, who walked into the high-ceilinged hall together as a military band played, soon offered totally different perspectives on the problem.

The king spoke of the “selfish interests“ of speculators as a primary reason and urged the gathered ministers to “rule out biased rumors“ and to “reach the real causes for the increase in price.“

But Mr. Brown pointed to fundamental economics and “oil demand rising faster than supply.“ The American energy secretary, Samuel W. Bodman, put it more bluntly in a meeting with reporters, saying, “There is no evidence we can find that speculators are driving futures prices.“

Both sides spoke about the need for compromise, with Mr. Brown calling for a “global new deal“ that would allow a “greater commonality of interest“ between consumers and producers, including greater freedom to invest in one another’s markets.

But asked how all this would help remedy the worst oil crisis in decades, some ministers seemed baffled and uneasy.

“Let me ask you,“ said India’s petroleum minister, Murli Deora, when a group of reporters asked him for his views, “what else can we do to bring harmony between buyers and sellers?“

Despite the urgency that brought hundreds of participants here, Jeroen van der Veer, the chief executive of Royal Dutch Shell, summarized the difficulties faced by oil producers in dealing with record prices: “There are no overnight solutions.“

King Abdullah also called for OPEC, the oil cartel, to pledge $1 billion to help developing nations deal with the effects of soaring energy costs, to which the Saudis would contribute an undetermined share. He also offered an additional $500 million in loans from Saudi Arabia.

Beyond that, participants called for both more transparency and more regulation in energy markets, more investments in both production and refining capacity, and more cooperation between producers and consumers.

While it is reaping record profits, Saudi Arabia is growing increasingly concerned that current oil prices might eventually dampen economic growth around the world and lead to lower oil demand, as is already happening in the United States and other developed countries. The current prices could make alternative fuels much more viable and threaten the long-term prospects of the oil-based economy.

Japan’s minister for economy, trade and industry, Akira Amari, made some sharply worded comments on that subject, warning that steep increases in the price of oil were already leading to greater energy efficiency and to the introduction of alternative fuels. He called these “natural self-defense measures“ that would “inevitably reduce the revenues of oil producing countries in the medium- to long-term.“

To ease fears over the supply of oil, a crucial factor behind the rally in prices, Saudi officials said the kingdom would be able to increase production capacity in the coming years. The Saudi oil minister, Ali al-Naimi, said that Saudi Arabia would be capable of adding an additional 2.5 million barrels a day to its output beyond the current expansion plans the kingdom is completing.

Saudi Arabia is increasing its production capacity to 12.5 million barrels a day in a $90 billion expansion plan that is scheduled for completion next year. Beyond that, Mr. Naimi said, oil experts in the kingdom had identified additional opportunities to expand production, if needed, to 15 million barrels a day in future years.

Mr. Naimi said this additional capacity would be used only “if and when crude oil demand levels warrant their development.“ He used the same language in saying the kingdom could add even more than the new 200,000-barrels-a-day increase in the short term.

The Saudis have already said they believe current demand is being met, despite the high prices — suggesting that high prices alone might not be enough to warrant the increase in supply.

Saudi Arabia has already increased its daily production by 300,000 barrels, or about 3 percent, to 9.45 million barrels. But that has had little impact.

“There is a very clear difference of opinion on key issues underpinning the high price of oil,“ said Raad Alkadiri, an energy analyst at PFC Energy, a consulting firm, who was present in Jidda. “It’s not clear that anything you heard today is going to reverse sentiment. One thing is clear: You are not going to wake up tomorrow and find that oil prices have dropped 20 or 30 dollars.“

Strike Against Chevron in Nigeria

LAGOS (Reuters) — Nigeria’s senior oil workers’ union began strike action at the energy giant Chevron on Monday but said it had not yet shut down any production, pending further talks with the government.

“A limited form of protest has started but we have not yet gone deep,” Lumumba Okugbawa, deputy secretary general of the union, told Reuters. “We have not shut down the oilfields, but administrative functions are affected.”

He said union representatives will travel to the Nigerian capital Abuja for talks with the federal government about the dispute, after negotiations with Chevron management reached deadlock.

Chevron confirmed that union members had declared a work stoppage but said it was “continuing to engage all the stakeholders” through dialogue.

“It is still too early to comment on any potential impact of the declared work stoppage on our operations,” Chevron spokeswoman Margaret Cooper said.

Chevron’s output from Nigeria is around 350,000 barrels a day, of which its equity share is around 129,000 barrels a day. A strike could further cut Nigeria’s production, already driven down by militant attacks on oil operations.

The oil minister,Odein Ajumogobia, said on Sunday that Nigeria was producing around 1.8 million barrels a day before the most recent attacks, less than two-thirds of its output capacity.

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When VeraSun Energy inaugurated a new ethanol processing plant last summer in Charles City, Iowa, some of that industry’s most prominent boosters showed up. Leaders of the National Corn Growers Association and the Renewable Fuels Association, for instance, came to help cut the ribbon — and so did Senator Barack Obama.

Then running far behind Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in name recognition and in the polls, Mr. Obama was in the midst of a campaign swing through the state where he would eventually register his first caucus victory. And as befits a senator from Illinois, the country’s second largest corn-producing state, he delivered a ringing endorsement of ethanol as an alternative fuel.

Mr. Obama is running as a reformer who is seeking to reduce the influence of special interests. But like any other politician, he has powerful constituencies that help shape his views. And when it comes to domestic ethanol, almost all of which is made from corn, he also has advisers and prominent supporters with close ties to the industry at a time when energy policy is a point of sharp contrast between the parties and their presidential candidates.

In the heart of the Corn Belt that August day, Mr. Obama argued that embracing ethanol “ultimately helps our national security, because right now we’re sending billions of dollars to some of the most hostile nations on earth.” America’s oil dependence, he added, “makes it more difficult for us to shape a foreign policy that is intelligent and is creating security for the long term.”

Nowadays, when Mr. Obama travels in farm country, he is sometimes accompanied by his friend Tom Daschle, the former Senate majority leader from South Dakota. Mr. Daschle now serves on the boards of three ethanol companies and works at a Washington law firm where, according to his online job description, “he spends a substantial amount of time providing strategic and policy advice to clients in renewable energy.”

Mr. Obama’s lead advisor on energy and environmental issues, Jason Grumet, came to the campaign from the National Commission on Energy Policy, a bipartisan initiative associated with Mr. Daschle and Bob Dole, the Kansas Republican who is also a former Senate majority leader and a big ethanol backer who had close ties to the agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland.

Not long after arriving in the Senate, Mr. Obama himself briefly provoked a controversy by flying at subsidized rates on corporate airplanes, including twice on jets owned by Archer Daniels Midland, which is the nation’s largest ethanol producer and is based in his home state.

Jason Furman, the Obama campaign’s economic policy director, said Mr. Obama’s stance on ethanol was based on its merits. “That is what has always motivated him on this issue, and will continue to determine his policy going forward,” Mr. Furman said.

Asked if Mr. Obama brought any predisposition or bias to the ethanol debate because he represents a corn-growing state that stands to benefit from a boom, Mr. Furman said, “He wants to represent the United States of America, and his policies are based on what’s best for the country.”

Mr. Daschle, a national co-chairman of the Obama campaign, said in a telephone interview on Friday that his role advising the Obama campaign on energy matters was limited. He said he was not a lobbyist for ethanol companies, but did speak publicly about renewable energy options and worked “with a number of associations and groups to orchestrate and coordinate their activities,” including the Governors’ Ethanol Coalition.

Of Mr. Obama, Mr. Daschle said, “He has a terrific policy staff and relies primarily on those key people to advise him on key issues, whether energy or climate change or other things.”

Ethanol is one area in which Mr. Obama strongly disagrees with his Republican opponent, Senator John McCain of Arizona. While both presidential candidates emphasize the need for the United States to achieve “energy security” while also slowing down the carbon emissions that are believed to contribute to global warming, they offer sharply different visions of the role that ethanol, which can be made from a variety of organic materials, should play in those efforts.

Mr. McCain advocates eliminating the multibillion-dollar annual government subsidies that domestic ethanol has long enjoyed. As a free trade advocate, he also opposes the 54-cent-a-gallon tariff that the United States slaps on imports of ethanol made from sugar cane, which packs more of an energy punch than corn-based ethanol and is cheaper to produce.

“We made a series of mistakes by not adopting a sustainable energy policy, one of which is the subsidies for corn ethanol, which I warned in Iowa were going to destroy the market” and contribute to inflation, Mr. McCain said this month in an interview with a Brazilian newspaper, O Estado de São Paulo. “Besides, it is wrong,” he added, to tax Brazilian-made sugar cane ethanol, “which is much more efficient than corn ethanol.”

Mr. Obama, in contrast, favors the subsidies, some of which end up in the hands of the same oil companies he says should be subjected to a windfall profits tax. In the name of helping the United States build “energy independence,” he also supports the tariff, which some economists say may well be illegal under the World Trade Organization’s rules but which his advisers say is not.

Many economists, consumer advocates, environmental experts and tax groups have been critical of corn ethanol programs as a boondoggle that benefits agribusiness conglomerates more than small farmers. Those complaints have intensified recently as corn prices have risen sharply in tandem with oil prices and corn normally used for food stock has been diverted to ethanol production.

“If you want to take some of the pressure off this market, the obvious thing to do is lower that tariff and let some Brazilian ethanol come in,” said C. Ford Runge, an economist specializing in commodities and trade policy at the Center for International Food and Agricultural Policy at the University of Minnesota. “But one of the fundamental reasons biofuels policy is so out of whack with markets and reality is that interest group politics have been so dominant in the construction of the subsidies that support it.”

Corn ethanol generates less than two units of energy for every unit of energy used to produce it, while the energy ratio for sugar cane is more than 8 to 1. With lower production costs and cheaper land prices in the tropical countries where it is grown, sugar cane is a more efficient source.

Mr. Furman said the campaign continued to examine the issue. “We want to evaluate all our energy subsidies to make sure that taxpayers are getting their money’s worth,” he said.

He added that Mr. Obama favored “a range of initiatives” that were aimed at “diversification across countries and sources of energy,” including cellulosic ethanol, and which, unlike Mr. McCain’s proposals, were specifically meant to “reduce overall demand through conservation, new technology and improved efficiency.”

On the campaign trail, Mr. Obama has not explained his opposition to imported sugar cane ethanol. But in remarks last year, made as President Bush was about to sign an ethanol cooperation agreement with his Brazilian counterpart, Mr. Obama argued that “our country’s drive toward energy independence” could suffer if Mr. Bush relaxed restrictions, as Mr. McCain now proposes.

“It does not serve our national and economic security to replace imported oil with Brazilian ethanol,” he argued.

Mr. Obama does talk regularly about developing switchgrass, which flourishes in the Midwest and Great Plains, as a source for ethanol. While the energy ratio for switchgrass and other types of cellulosic ethanol is much greater than corn, economists say that time-consuming investments in infrastructure would be required to make it viable, and with corn nearing $8 a bushel, farmers have little incentive to shift.

Ethanol industry executives and advocates have not made large donations to either candidate for president, an examination of campaign contribution records shows. But they have noted the difference between Mr. Obama and Mr. McCain.

Brian Jennings, a vice president of the American Coalition for Ethanol, said he hoped that Mr. McCain, as a presidential candidate, “would take a broader view of energy security and recognize the important role that ethanol plays.”

The candidates’ views were tested recently in the Farm Bill approved by Congress that extended the subsidies for corn ethanol, though reducing them slightly, and the tariffs on imported sugar cane ethanol. Because Mr. McCain and Mr. Obama were campaigning, neither voted. But Mr. McCain said that as president he would veto the bill, while Mr. Obama praised it.

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