Word: diesel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...truckers, squeezed between rising diesel-fuel costs and lower speed limits that cut the number of miles they can cover in a day, are the first large group of Americans to have their incomes directly reduced by the fuel crisis (see box page 33). Their protests seemed spontaneous; both the Teamsters Union and the American Trucking Association publicly disavowed them. But the drivers have their own informal communications network: the Citizen's Band radios that link them rig-to-rig as they roll along. Last week those radios crackled with calls to revolt by parking tractor-trailers across turnpikes...
...power output, which would douse nearly all outdoor advertising and cause store-window lights to blink off after 9:30 p.m. and office-building and parking-lot lights to go dark three hours after the close of business every night. Texaco announced that its deliveries of home heating oil, diesel and tractor fuel to distributors this month will be 27% lower than in December last year. At that, the American shortages are mild compared with those in Europe, where bitter cold and record snowfalls are already worsening the bite. An economic study now being passed around among top officials...
...December 1972) will unfairly penalize an industry whose project starts are erratically timed, depending on the weather and the availability of workers and contracts. Materials shortages loom too: the manufacture of lime, a key ingredient in cement, requires more energy than any other product made in the U.S., and diesel fuel to run construction machinery is scarce. Economists at a Washington conference sponsored by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board predicted a drop in housing starts to 1.5 million next year, from 2,000,000 in 1973. In turn, such a decline may well affect home appliance and furniture sales...
...inability to get crude. Mobil last week announced that after Dec. 31 it will "mothball" an East Chicago refinery that has been processing 47,000 bbl. per day of crude for small independent oil companies. Small oil distributors will be really pinched. John Fiore has been supplying diesel fuel to barges, tugs and fishing boats in Boston harbor for 40 years, recently at the rate of 60,000 gal. a week. Last week he sold none, because he could get none...
TRUCKERS have obvious miseries; a few are already being stranded without fuel. But some analysts expect big truck lines to do relatively well, because they will probably get generous supplies of diesel fuel under any rationing system. Small lines whose trucks fill up along the highway may be forced out of business as diesel fuel becomes harder to find. The big lines, then, might pluck the most profitable contracts of the little lines that go under...