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...quench their thirst and stave off dehydration, U.S. troops in the 120 degreesF Saudi Arabian desert must drink up to 8 gal. of water a day. Much of the vital liquid comes from local bottled well water that is cumbersome to transport...
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...
...received at least $4,250 from the two manufacturers. Dole also got special treatment for an old friend -- Dwayne Andreas, president of the Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. ADM produces 70% of the country's ethanol, a gasoline substitute distilled from corn. The Senator protected an existing 60 cents-per-gal. tax credit that goes to the firms that turn the ethanol into the gasohol used in cars. Andreas and ADM's PAC have contributed $10,000 to Dole...
...Vietnam, U.S. troops bombed the land in order to save it. The same logic seems to have prevailed in the wake of the 11 million-gal. Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska last year. To help win multimillion-dollar court judgments against Exxon, federal and state officials have funded the deliberate killing of hundreds of healthy animals. The aim of all this destruction? To better estimate the destruction caused by the spill...