Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hundreds of big rigs-reefers, dry boxes and flatbeds-in and out of the world's largest and most complete truck stop. Transport City is a 51-acre, $7 million complex that is still growing in the outskirts of Atlanta, just off Interstate 285. It smells of diesel fuel and looks like a giant J.C. Penney complex, but it is the nearest thing to trucker's heaven yet invented. In it, tired truckers by the hundreds can fill up their 150-gal. tanks, take saunas, wash their clothes, grab a few hours of shuteye, get a quick clutch...
...raisin-sugar cookies in the press room at Jadwin barely provided enough fuel to contemplate cruising to Philadelphia for the Crimson's contest against Pennsylvania this evening...
Goodwin said that under a "fuel clause" in Harvard's contract with Cambridge Steam, the utility company can pass rises in fuel costs on to the consumer. He said that fuel makes up about 70 per cent of Harvard's steam bill, and thus the rise in heavy oil prices "significantly" affects the cost of steam as well...
Dugger points out in her piece that TVA has improved its environmental record, citing its commitment to land reclamation. But the overall record is still abominable. TVA remains the single largest consumer in the U.S. of strip-mined coal, which it uses to feed its 12 fossil fuel power plants. These plants contaminate the air and water at a rate that places TVA, according to the Council on Economic Priorities, at the top of the 15 largest American utilities in air and water pollution. In 1975, TVA received an order to comply with the Clean Air Act, but the company...
...companies argue that the federal controls on gas prices that were imposed during the fuel panic touched off by the 1973 oil embargo discourage investment in new refineries because the return on investment is too low when compared with that produced by other operations. As supplies diminish, more and more oil firms are limiting deliveries of both leaded and unleaded to dealers. Two weeks ago Texaco joined American Petrofina and Phillips Petroleum in allocating supplies, and last week Chevron sought Government permission to take similar steps. Says Texaco Vice President Annon Card: "If demand keeps going...