Word: gal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bush's admonition to show restraint at the gas pump. In fact, while oil prices at the end of last week stood at about $33 per bbl., or 65% higher than they were just before Iraq invaded Kuwait, average U.S. gasoline prices were only 31% higher, or $1.38 per gal. for unleaded regular. Said Holly Hutchins, a spokesman for Shell Oil: "We gave up a considerable amount at the pump to meet the President's request...
Energy consumers complain, however, that Big Oil has been less moderate in boosting prices of other products. Heating fuel has risen about 45%, to 88 cents per gal. The biggest run-up has occurred in jet fuel, which has zoomed 100%, to $1.40 per gal. "Petroleum producers are reluctant to stick it to the little guy, so I think they are attempting to shift more of the expense to a place where the average consumer won't see it immediately," contends David Messing, a spokesman for Continental Airlines...
Republican Bob Packwood responded to pleas from the Oregon Winegrowers' Association to fight an 18 cents-per-bottle tax increase on wine. Packwood delivered: vineyards that produce less than 150,000 gal. a year will be exempt from the increase, and those that turn out up to 250,000 gal. will be partly spared. Roughly 1,000 of the 1,400 wineries in the nation, including 80 in Oregon, will get the breaks. Packwood has received $7,000 from the industry's political-action committees (PACs...
...taxes. Democratic majorities on the appropriations committees began filling in the blanks of a vague plan to cut $500 billion from the deficit over five years. But they took time to lard their proposals with the usual favors for vested interests, such as imposing a 9 cents per gal. fuel tax on railroads at the behest of the rival American Trucking Associations...
...spot rate of $37 per bbl. at the end of last week. America's monthly bill for imported oil has risen in proportion, to an estimated $7 billion, with the increase acting as a depressant on the economy. The price of regular unleaded gasoline has climbed 27 cents a gal., to $1.35, since early August. At these price levels, the heating-oil bill for the average Northeast homeowner could rise 50% this winter, to an estimated $1,200. The most immediate threat is an outbreak of war in the Persian Gulf, which could send oil prices into...