Word: gal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This is a mini-Alaska," declared New York Attorney General Robert Abrams, referring to last year's 11 million-gal. spill from the Exxon Valdez...
...company's shoddy equipment and poor maintenance procedures helped cause one of the largest oil spills in the region's history. On New Year's Day a 12-in. pipeline running under the Arthur Kill waterway, which separates Staten Island and New Jersey, ruptured and spewed out 567,000 gal. of No. 2 heating oil. Much of the fuel drifted into surrounding wetlands, which serve as a rookery for rare wading birds...
Exxon's mop-up team did earn modest praise for its effectiveness in soaking up some of the oil with cotton booms. By week's end Exxon had recovered about 130,000 gal., but the damage remains to be calculated. More than 300 birds have died, and if the oil destroys the area's marine organisms, several species of migratory birds may starve to death when they arrive in the spring for breeding...
...energy squeeze are breaking out all over. Several airlines have abruptly added a surcharge to their fares to help cover spiraling jet-fuel costs. Trucking companies have begun to pass along the rising cost of diesel oil, which in just one month shot up 30%, to $1.35 per gal. Motorists may soon be affected too: a sharp decline in gasoline inventories is likely to boost prices at the pump by spring...
...more keenly than heating-oil customers. During the brutal cold snap last month, when temperatures hovered in the single digits even in parts of the Sunbelt, fuel oil was in such demand that some distributors ran dry. The clamor for supply pushed prices up as high as $1.50 per gal., a 50% increase in one month...