Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most acute shortages are of unleaded high-octane gas, but regular unleaded is also scarce. In the past two years, consumption of the unleaded grades has grown dramatically, as federal antipollution laws have forced U.S. automakers to shift to production of cars unsuited for leaded fuels. Lead hampers the functioning of so-called catalytic converters, which remove pollutants like nitrous oxide from auto exhausts. Surging demand for unleaded fuel has driven Shell Oil Co., the nation's largest gasoline retailer, and Amoco Oil Co., the leading producer of unleaded gas, to begin limiting deliveries to dealers. Mobil and other...
...that extra margin increases the nation's oil import bill, which once again has begun to grow after showing some brief signs of improving. This year, oil and natural gas imports will swell to $45 billion, up from $42 billion last year. Cornpared with conventional gasoline, unleaded fuel is more expensive to make, costs more at the pump, and gives a lackluster performance under the hood...
...result of the expected OPEC price rise. In addition, decontrol of domestic crude oil to bring prices up to world levels, which Carter pledged in Bonn last summer to accomplish by the end of 1980, would add an extra 5? or 6? per gal. to gasoline costs, lifting fuel prices far beyond the President's own anti-inflation limits. These specify that companies keep their price increases ½% or more below their average increases of the past two years. Kahn concedes that in the long run the Government will have to let the price of energy...
...even aircraft used to sit out in the open in West Germany, vulnerable to attack. Now all U.S. warplanes are tucked safely inside $550,000 concrete and steel hangars. These are capable of withstanding a direct hit from a 500-lb. bomb. Many command posts, ammunition dumps and fuel depots have been similarly hardened. Tougher training. U.S. forces in Europe train more frequently and in more realistic circumstances than in the past. Surprise alerts sound at any moment of the day or night, sending troops racing to their posts. During the exercises, communications and electronic systems are deliberately jammed, just...
...Hussein the official U.S. answers to 14 questions that the King had raised about the Camp David accords. Saunders, at various times a CIA, National Security Council and State Department specialist in Middle East affairs, is a respected Arabist. Selective leaks of his purported answers to Hussein tended to fuel Jerusalem's suspicions that the State Department, if not the White House, had an anti-Israel bias...