Word: gal
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...That attack dovetailed with a surge of protests aimed at the excise tax increases, particularly the 10 cents per gal. on gasoline -- never mind that the U.S. is involved in a gulf crisis partly because of its failure to use energy prudently. Word that there would be a tax break for the wealthy also prompted indignation. The offices of some lawmakers received hundreds of calls protesting the measures. Radio call-in programs got a similar response. At radio station WGST in Atlanta, all three talk shows buzzed with listeners' indignation. Said producer Nancy Zintak: "I haven't heard people this...
...weak carriers may fail. Eastern, already in bankruptcy, is losing $1.5 million a day, about 50% more than a few months ago. A prime reason for the accelerating losses, says Eastern trustee Martin Shugrue, is the rise of jet-fuel prices. The airline pays 96 cents per gal., up from 56 cents before Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. Last week Shugrue urged President Bush to form a task force to find ways to bring oil prices under control. Another money-losing carrier, Pan Am, is laying off workers and switching to smaller jets, while trying to sell its shuttle...
...months since the Exxon Valdez spewed 11 million gal. of crude oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound, controversy has dogged the cleanup efforts. The debate continued last week, as Exxon ended a second summer of mopping up and declared the cleanup over unless its survey next spring proves a need for more. The tab so far: $2 billion plus. Alaskan officials were not quite so upbeat. Insisting that "substantial oil remains," outgoing Governor Steve Cowper said, "We can't take a walk and let Mother Nature finish...
...becomes more expensive, the most alluring aspect of natural gas will be its relatively low price. For heating purposes, gas currently costs about $5.50 per million BTUs, vs. $9 for oil. For powering vehicles, natural gas costs the equivalent of about 70 cents per gal., in contrast to the current $1.25 average for regular unleaded gasoline. If the current enthusiasm for natural gas leads to better delivery of the fuel and a wider array of uses, once neglected methane could be a popular fuel of the future...
Less than an hour after engineers began pumping 385,000 gal. of highly explosive liquid hydrogen into the fuel tank of the space shuttle Columbia, the countdown was halted and the flight scrubbed -- for the third time in just over three months. "We do not consider that the vehicle is safe to fly," declared shuttle director Robert Crippen, who earlier this summer grounded the entire fleet when leaks turned up in the shuttle Atlantis as well. NASA has not been able to get a shuttle off the ground since April, when it launched the now crippled Hubble telescope. Though shuttle...