Word: fueled
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...cents per gal. be repealed, an action that Speaker Newt Gingrich suggested Congress could accomplish by Memorial Day. Pointedly noting that there had been no Republican support for that 1993 tax increase, Dole declared on the Senate floor, "We believe, with the skyrocketing prices of gasoline, jet fuel and other fuels, that the most certain way to give consumers relief is to repeal...
...motorists don't seem very concerned with fuel economy. At Ford, a survey revealed that fuel economy ranks only 15th among the items considered by consumers today when purchasing a new vehicle. That attitude is reflected on the highways, where drivers of all types of vehicles are sacrificing fuel economy by taking full advantage of new, higher speed limits in many states. As a result of this national indulgence, industry experts estimate that third- and fourth-quarter consumption of gasoline this year will reach 8 million and 8.1 million bbl. a day, respectively, a 7.5% and 10% increase over last...
...throw in the weather. The exceptionally long and cold winter in the U.S. caused refiners to devote more of their capacity to meeting the greater demand for heating fuel. This, in turn, gave them little time to convert their production to meet the blossoming spring and summer demand for gasoline. In the week ending April 19, the American Petroleum Institute reported that gasoline production, hobbled by a series of accidents and closures of refineries, slipped more than 220,000 bbl. a day, to just under 7.3 million bbl. By Memorial Day, production will be about...
That there was still enough left over to fuel a four-day auction seems an important consideration to historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, whose husband Richard was an insider in J.F.K.'s Administration and who herself is friendly with a number of the Kennedys. "There's a sense that all of the Kennedy family homes are so filled with mementos and pictures from the past that you do feel when you set foot in them as if you're drawn backward in time. While that is very interesting historically for people who visit, I've often wondered what it's like...
HEBRON, West Bank: The stabbing of an Israeli settler by a Palestinian in Hebron on Wednesday added fuel to an already raging inferno of debate over Israel's agreement to pull out its troops from the city. Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres is under increasing pressure from religious and right-wing parties to delay the troop withdrawal until after elections May 29. The parties hope the right- wing Likud party will win the election and back out of the pullout agreement with Palestinians. "Hebron is a tinderbox," Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer says. "It is a tense place even under...