Word: gal
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...still growing in the outskirts of Atlanta, just off Interstate 285. It smells of diesel fuel and looks like a giant J.C. Penney complex, but it is the nearest thing to trucker's heaven yet invented. In it, tired truckers by the hundreds can fill up their 150-gal. tanks, take saunas, wash their clothes, grab a few hours of shuteye, get a quick clutch overhaul and eat their fill. The place has 24 computerized fueling stations that can pump 3 million gal. of gas a month...
High on the list of legal horrors is an Arkansas regulation requiring trucks traveling through the state to buy 65 gal. of gas. "You can't realize how ununited the U.S. is unless you drive across it," says Trucker Tom Strampel. The worst regulations, everyone agrees, are those governing the length and weight of tractor trailers. Smack dab in the middle of the U.S. are seven states that allow trucks a gross weight of only 73,280 Ibs. The states on either side permit 80,000 Ibs. Truckers will do anything to avoid the weigh stations ("chicken coops...
...surest way to resolve the problem is to lift price controls. But that is politically difficult because it would boost living costs and thus run counter to the Administration's anti-inflation drive. Last week the DOE estimated that gasoline prices would rise by about 9? a gal. under present price controls by the end of 1980, and by about 13? a gal. if the restraints were lifted. Though the department contends that decontrol would probably not greatly increase the premium on unleaded, now 4.4%, it agrees that under the worst of circumstances, the gap between prices for leaded...
Martha Mitchell was one of 'em...She was just a hell of an interesting gal, and she was with all the power and everything. She was very strong in the White House--Nixon was taking a lot of her advice when he was really down...
...Department of Energy wants to stimulate production. To do so, it has drafted a proposal for decontrol of all gasoline prices, and last week the Administration announced that the President would send a decontrol bill to Congress in mid-January. Decontrol would immediately add up to 4? per gal. at the pump, on top of perhaps a 1½? increase as a 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...