Word: gal
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...senior U.S. representative in Antarctica, but they are exaggerated. "Our behavior in the past was disgraceful -- by today's standards," he admits. "But we are doing much better. We're installing a primary waste-treatment facility at McMurdo this season. We've begun recycling. Yes, we lost 50,000 gal. of fuel recently, but we've recovered more than half of it." Last month McMurdo residents went patrolling for loose trash...
...huge gash in the hull of a supertanker off the northwest African coast, igniting a fire that forces the crew to abandon ship. For nearly two weeks, the leaking, foundering vessel is left to drift toward the rich fishing grounds and unspoiled beaches of Morocco. Some 19 million gal. of crude oil ooze into the sea, nearly twice the amount disgorged by the Exxon Valdez in Alaska last March. A replay of grim images -- gooey, blackened shorelines and oil-soaked animal corpses -- appears inevitable...
Petroleum and heating-oil traders were equally bullish. The price of home heating oil for January delivery rose to a 3-year high of more than $1 per gal. in the futures market. Retail prices are soaring. In parts of the . Northeast, consumers are paying as much as $1.40 for a gallon of home heating oil, up more than 40 cents in three weeks...