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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...October. The revised prediction estimates that potential demand will exceed supply by 21% rather than the previously forecast 23%. Though the 2% difference seems small, it is crucial-just enough to remove the threat of supply cutoffs to industrial plants that can use only natural gas as a fuel. Barring abnormally cold weather, Zarb now says, the only factories and utilities likely to have their gas supplies interrupted are those that can switch to alternative fuels like oil; the clear implication is that gas shortages will not cause any loss of jobs. Home owners, who have top priority...
...each of the industry's principal categories: the Cessna 172 Skyhawk single-engine (1976 price: $20,750), the Piper Seneca twin-engine ($75,100) and the Cessna Citation jet ($845,000). Though the operating costs of small planes are high, many corporations justify the craft as necessities. High fuel and labor costs have compelled airlines to cut back on both flights and routes. Only 425 domestic airports are now served by the commercial carriers, v. 660 a decade...
...also have gained sales at the expense of auto travel. The national 55-m.p.h. highway speed limit, they say, is just too slow for many salesmen. Even some of the smallest, least-expensive craft can cruise at 110 m.p.h.-while getting better than 20 miles to a gallon of fuel...
...Africa's west coast, for example, Guinea has been a faithful ally of Russia since 1959. Soviet naval units call regularly at Conakry's fine harbor, where they stock up on fuel and supplies for mid-Atlantic patrols. The Red fleet also regularly puts into ports in the Congo (Brazzaville) and Equatorial Guinea. On the east coast of the continent, Soviet planes and warships use bases in Somalia from which they patrol the Indian Ocean and the Strait of Hormuz, which leads to the oil-rich Persian Gulf. At Berbera the Soviets are completing a sophisticated installation capable...
Last June, Aramco asked Fluor to design and build a $4 billion plant to collect, process and pump 5 billion cu. ft. of natural gas per day. When completed in 1979, the facility will fuel Saudi Arabia's $142 billion industrialization program. The job will return to the U.S. a lot of money that American industries spend to buy foreign oil. "The Saudis instructed us both to buy as much equipment as possible in the U.S. and maximize engineering in America," says Bob Fluor. "That may be $3 billion in equipment orders. It certainly won't hurt...