Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Energy Department urges fuel users to make a surprising switch...
...ardor. He is in the grip of what Shaw calls a "master passion," and his iconoclastic views are contrasted with those of a fossilized former liberal, Roebuck Ramsden (Richard Woods). Grizzard works hard. But he is visibly too old for the part and lacks the psychic energy needed to fuel the evangelist in Shaw's most fervent heroes...
...nightmare that has nagged scientists since the dawn of nuclear power. A cooling-system pipe ruptures. The temperature of the nuclear reactor's core fuel shoots up, melting its zircaloy shielding. Finally the heat becomes so intense that the entire domed building disintegrates, leaking out a cloud of radioactive fallout that kills tens of thousands of people...
...Mexican finds are significant but hardly a complete solution to future energy shortages. At best, oil from Mexico would put off the projected fuel crunch from the late 1980s to the early 1990s. But together with other potential big fields?in China, Iraq, Canada, South America, Alaska and elsewhere?the new bonanza in Mexico could enable the world to scrape by into the 21st century, by which time energy from alternative sources may be widely available...
...although gas stations can be fined up to $10,000 for putting leaded gas into cars suited for only unleaded grades, the drivers themselves are subject to no such penalties. More and more motorists are pulling into self-service stations to tank up with the cheaper and peppier leaded fuel, even though doing so ruins their catalytic converters and makes the cars bigger polluters than ever. The EPA fears that decontrolling prices will merely widen the gap between the cost of leaded and unleaded gas and encourage more drivers to skirt the law that requires unleaded in new cars. Says...