Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pump, Big Oil has become mindful of its image and eager to forestall congressional moves to pass a windfall-profits tax. When the gulf fighting started, such energy giants as Chevron, Mobil and Shell pledged to freeze gasoline prices at company-owned stations. (The U.S. average for regular unleaded fuel was $1.24 per gal. as the war broke out, in contrast to $1.01 last August, just before the Iraqi invasion.) Shell, Exxon and other firms later cut their wholesale prices about 5 cents per gal. when crude prices fell...
Logistics. U.S. logistical superiority could quickly become a decisive factor. To assure adequate stocks of food, water, fuel and ammunition, the U.S. has mounted the biggest military resupply effort in history. Some 100 transport ships are sailing toward Saudi Arabia. More than 2,500 trucks will deliver * weapons and ammunition to the front...
...Israel responded by ending its game of hide-and- seek and adopting very public preparations for striking back. "Our pilots are in their cockpits," declared air-force commander Avihu Bin-Nun on state- owned television as he stood in front of a fully armed F-15 equipped with external fuel tanks for the more than 500-mile trip to Baghdad...
...warplanes took off in pairs, disappearing in red dots that winked out as they gained altitude. The aircraft were heavily loaded with bombs and underwing fuel tanks for the long trip north. They also were armed with cannon and air-to-air missiles for self-defense...
Least Popular Industry, Lifetime Achievement Category Big Oil struck a gusher of bad publicity again. Little more than a year after the Exxon Valdez disaster, the industry got blamed by just about everybody for rising gas and fuel prices in the wake of the Persian Gulf crisis. Oilmen denied any profiteering, but several firms posted huge increases in earnings...