Word: dieselization
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...tiny Kuwait is one of the nations that have driven up world petroleum prices since 1973, its own citizens have been paying bargain prices for their fuel. Drivers of the country's 500,000 cars could fill their tanks with 90-octane gasoline for 19? per gal., while diesel fuel sold for 7.5?. The state-owned Kuwait National Petroleum Co. sold the products for less than their cost. Last week, however, Kuwait's motorists awoke to find gasoline prices had nearly tripled, to 53? per gal. for the 90-octane blend. Diesel fuel now costs...
...benchmark price of a barrel of crude from $1.80 in 1970 to $34 now. Besides the skyrocketing increases in retail prices of gasoline, the spiral helped drive up everything from apartment rents, which are affected by fuel costs, to the price of food, which is hauled to supermarkets in diesel-burning trucks...
...BOTTOM LINE is simple. When the chips were down--when the fate of MATEP rested on a few crucial approvals--Harvard fully exploited the vast resources that its meek but fiesty opponents lacked. To avoid a long federal process of diesel approval similar to the one which had held back MATEP on the state level, President Bok last spring asked Gov. Edward J. King to request the exemption of MATEP from normal inspection procedures. Harvard had the exemption...
...storm surrounding the plant since its inception has now largely cleared, thanks to Harvard's power-plays and name-dropping. The state will begin testing the six diesel engines in May or June; by the end of the summer. MATEP should be running...
Conversely, as the coalition wallows in severe disarray and indecision, MATEP is the busiest it's ever been. Construction work has virtually concluded, engineers are readying for the imminent diesel testing and start-up. For a year-and-a-half, the steam-and-chilled-water portions have been churning efficiently. MATEP is progressing now just like it was supposed to years...