Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...main attraction of fusion is the potentially limitless fuel supply. The ideal fuel is not plain hydrogen but the formula used last week: a mixture of deuterium and tritium, two isotopes of hydrogen that have extra neutrons in their nuclei. Even though they're rarer than ordinary hydrogen, scientists estimate that enough of these two isotopes could be extracted from the top 2 in. of water in Lake Erie to match the energy in all the world's oil reserves...
...When Large Fuel Tank Has Been Filled...
TIME: So you would welcome the pressure toward fuel efficiency that a higher tax would lead...
TIME: But you clearly make more money on the bigger gas guzzlers. I know you hate that term, but what is your incentive to continue building smaller, fuel- efficient cars...
Trotman: We have an incentive to meet the law. That's our incentive. We're selling smaller cars against the grain. We have to sell approximately 400,000 Escorts and Tracers to meet the CAFE ((Corporate Average Fuel Economy)) requirements of 27.5 m.p.g. Whether the customer likes it or not, we have to sell them...