Word: bottlenecks
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...problems are the usual ones - California is short on reserves of reformulated gas, a cleaner-burning blend required by the EPA in certain urban (read: smoggy) areas in summer. Chicago is at the bottleneck of the Midwest refinery supply line; prices go up as soon as one of the area's suppliers (like the Tosco refinery in Wood River, Ill., that had a fire last week) goes down...
...PRESIDENT: Yes, I think the main problem on refined product is that we haven't built any refineries. And the bottleneck is really not enough refined product on the market - although OPEC pricing does matter. And I would strongly hope that OPEC does not hurt the huge market called The United States of America by running up the price of crude...
...feels a creative bottleneck. She felt she did as much as she could for the place," he said. "She has her own interests...
...flurry of construction that was supposed to relieve the electric bottleneck has yet to arrive. Old-line utilities--which used to count on a guaranteed 5% to 7% profit--have been reluctant to invest in billion-dollar plants without understanding the vagaries of the free market, and upstart energy providers are still trying to figure out which markets are worth the hefty investments required. At the same time, the industry is plagued by an antiquated, balkanized transmission grid that wasn't built to wheel power from one region to another. "America is a superpower, but it's got the grid...
...martial beat taken from the fife-and-drum bands that have been playing in these hills since the Civil War, then dances around it with virtuoso rock and jazz accents. Luther, 27, his soft features framed by thick black curls, finger picks his Gibson hollow body and uses a bottleneck slide to make it skitter and howl. Garry Burnside locks in to the groove on bass (Chew is off working today, driving a truck for Williams-Sonoma), David Kimbrough Jr. adds a slinky guitar part, and Kenny Kimbrough wails on a conga. The instruments chase each other around the barn...