Word: dieselization
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...month, 85% of it national, and the majority is sold to truck lines that broadcast their willingness to lease, say, ten trucks from owner-operators. Some large truck stops have also bought time. The Mass 10 truck stop near Boston took a month's advertising and increased diesel fuel sales from 150,000 gal. monthly...
...kangaroo likes to lick the dew off the steel track. Or when a yellow-eyed dingo, Australia's coyote, will stand its ground and stare sourly at the train while a spindly-legged emu, the local version of an ostrich, will try to outrun the 3,300-h.p. diesel express...
...diesel engines pull...
...them; many predict that a shortage will impair their ability to harvest crops this fall. Truckers are also hurting. Chicago's Spector Freight System Inc., for example, expects to spend $1,000,000 more this year because of a 7?-a-gallon jump in the wholesale price of diesel fuel. Before the freeze, prices were rising at the corner gas station as well; in Boston they went up 2? a gallon in the past week. The Society of Independent Gasoline Marketers of America, whose members buy fuel from major oil companies and sell it at cut-rate prices, reports...
...such economic chaos that there will be riots-and then the Lon Nol government will fall like an overripe fruit." In the city itself last week, prices continued to rise. The arrival of a few fuel convoys had almost no effect on the chronic shortage of kerosene, gasoline and diesel...