Word: dieselization
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...Clinton is simply reaping what he has been sowing ever since he unveiled his economic plan in February. Clinton undercut his claim that all Americans would sacrifice equally. He granted a steady string of energy-tax exemptions to key lawmakers, special pleaders and important industries. Farmers won exemptions on diesel fuel for tractors. Majority Leader George Mitchell won an exemption for home heating oil, an important commodity in New England. Clinton himself agreed in an April telephone call (from a Congressman at a pay phone in Oklahoma) to change the way the tax would be collected on natural gas, electricity...
...plank, and I must say I don't like it," lamented Colorado's Patricia Schroeder. Though the White House still wants some kind of energy tax, it has ceded control over the budget process to the Senate Finance Committee, where an increased tax on gas and diesel fuel gained some support. To make up the loss of revenue caused by abandoning the broad energy tax, the committee has looked to changes in Medicare that would make the elderly pay more of their own way. That has displeased the senior-citizens lobby. "They took the most conservative committee in the Senate...
...attacks. One guerrilla leader admitted that a recent raiding party had detonated more than 1,000 lbs. of TNT in one of the bigger earthworks with little effect. "It just made a small hole that released some water," he said, "but it was repaired in two days using a diesel shovel...
...smog pushed ozone readings above 0.35 parts per million on some days, severe enough to harm even healthy people and four times the level considered safe under, say, California law. In recent years Mexico City has started to shut down polluting factories, introduce lead-free fuels, get rid of diesel- powered buses, mandate emission controls on new cars, and even decree that vehicles be driven only six days a week. But with the number of cars growing 7% a year, ozone pollution still worsened 22% between 1990 and 1991. Today the city is looking at electric cars and new pollution...
...carmakers are also considering a method already used by truck manufacturers: standardization of certain components, which allows parts companies to cut their prices. Zexel, a major high-tech partsmaker based in Tokyo, expects to get seven manufacturers to agree to a common fuel injector for their diesel vehicles. The risk of commonization is that if taken too far, it could disappoint consumers, who hardly need more disincentives to buying...