Africa Faces Another Rising Expense: Fuel
By LYDIA POLGREEN
July 12, 2008

DAKAR, Senegal — In the United States, where the median household
income is about $48,000, $4-a-gallon gas is painful.

In Nigeria, most of whose 140 million citizens live on less than $2 a
day despite their country's status as the world's eighth largest oil
exporter, $5.50-a-gallon diesel is excruciating.

Daniel Idoko runs a small business center in Abuja, Nigeria's capital,
and because the country's electricity supply is so balky, he relies on

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