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Back in the pack, Robert Dole, Phil Crane and John Anderson may draw more votes than expected because of their performances in the debate. Anderson stood out by forthrightly telling people things they do not want to hear: the grain embargo was justified, gas should be taxed 50? a gal. Yet Anderson has hardly bothered to campaign in Iowa. "The caucuses don't mean anything," he says. "It is New Hampshire that counts." And that is where he spent last week. But all the other presidential hopefuls would not trade snowbound Iowa for a South Seas paradise until...
...consumption and conserve supplies, he seems to be taking a surprisingly soft approach. Not only has the Administration shelved plans to levy a $5 per bbl. tariff on foreign crude, but it has also backed off from calling for a steep new gasoline tax of perhaps 50? a gal. The tax had been urged by John Sawhill, Deputy Secretary of Energy, and supported by Treasury Secretary G. William Miller, Chief Presidential Economist Charles Schultze and James Mclntyre, Director of the Office of Management and Budget. But, said a high Administration official last week, "the tax has gone down...
...reduce heating oil consumption. It has dropped by at least 10% from last year throughout the Northeast, the region that uses the most fuel. Even more important has been the drop in gasoline use. Last year prices rose 35%, to a current nationwide average of approximately $1.09 per gal. for unleaded regular, and last week several oil companies, including Texaco, Shell and Chevron announced new increases of from 2? to 5? per gal. As prices have climbed, consumption has slumped to about 95% of 1978's level...
...gal. tax on gasoline? Hogwash. What we need is a $1-per-gal. tax, applied at the retail level only, with the resulting revenues directed exclusively toward development of mass transit and new energy sources...
...noble vines are very limited and the great wine estates are centuries old, California has a vast amount of hospitable acreage and an ever increasing number of nouveaux wineries. While the state has a dozen long-established firms that annually produce more than 2 million cases (4.5 million gal.) each, some of the most interesting wines are being made by comparatively small estates that have started up in the past two decades. They are owned by engineers and airline pilots, big businessmen and corporations. Most of the bottles shipped by such wineries as Stag's Leap Wine Cellars, Chappellet...