Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because costs are lower, these stations can chip 4? to 5? off the price of a gallon of gas (current nationwide average: 63? per gal.), attract more customers and sell more fuel. Almost half of all the stations in the nation are now self-service, v. only 8% three years...
Indeed, the big loser in the great gas station shake-up has been the small businessman who leases his station from a large firm and depends on it to provide fuel and marketing support. Often these operators make most of their money from car repairs or maintenance, and do not want to switch to selling gas exclusively. Yet, if they refuse to go along, the companies can and sometimes do refuse to renew their lease...
...coal, and the 1973 Arab oil boycott dramatically demonstrated French reliance on foreign energy. Since 1974, as a result, the government has organized an ambitious atomic-energy program to provide at least 40 conventional nuclear-power plants and a 1,200-megawatt fast-neutron plant that will breed plutonium fuel from uranium wastes, reducing any necessity for importing North American uranium. Scientists are sharply divided over the dangers that may be inherent in the breeder reactors, and President Carter has halted the U.S. breeder program as risky. The French are nonetheless pressing ahead with their breeder plan, the most ambitious...
...suspicion in Washington that the 500 proposal was planned in the first place as a throwaway to give Congress something to kill. Also the President could not sell the House on giving him power to order factories to switch from oil or natural gas to coal as fuel-but the House did enact a special tax on plants that fail to make the switch...
...practices of the major oil companies. As a result, the task force asserts, the companies had possibly overcharged the consuming public "several billions of dollars." The FEA has begun new hearings aimed at tightening auditing procedures. This week the agency will open an investigation of alleged price gouging on fuel oil used in home heating; one consumer group is claiming the FEA permitted oil companies to overcharge by $2 billion last year...