Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Enactment of the energy bill in November has freed large amounts of the fuel for interstate sale, and this has put the Carter Administration in the welcome but confusing position of having to do an about-face on gas policy. Energy Secretary James Schlesinger still wants industrial and commercial users to switch to coal, which is by far the nation's most plentiful fossil fuel. To help alleviate the gas glut, however, he would also like any user that has already disconnected from gas and shifted to fuel oil to switch back...
Manufacturers are fine-tuning prices to help meet the federal Corporate Average Fuel Economy (or CAFE) standard of 19 m.p.g. for each company's entire line of cars in model year '79. The trick is to sell enough of the mini and subcompact models, averaging 28 to 30 m.p.g., to offset the heavier cars that get only 11 or 12 m.p.g...
...Oklahoma to sell his gas to a pipeline company that will transport it to Michigan as to a customer that will use it to generate electricity or heat a factory in Tulsa. This in turn has made available an estimated 1 trillion additional cubic feet of the fuel for sale in states such as Ohio, Indiana, and New Jersey, where it is needed most. One trillion cubic feet is roughly equal to 5% of the nation's annual gas consumption, and is more than enough to heat three-quarters of all U.S. homes for one month...
...last week that they intend to raise production in the first quarter by about 7.5% over the high levels of a year ago and that this should help keep the economy humming along. But while Americans are buying a lot of cars, they are also buying too many big, fuel-thirsty models, and the auto marketers are trying to swing sales toward smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles...
Ford last month jacked up prices on all its big cars, including its fast-selling Thunderbirds (by $128) and behemoth Lincolns (by $267). To encourage small-car sales, Ford left intact the prices on its fuel-efficient but slow-selling Pintos and Bobcats...