Word: gal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...barreling head on into the energy crisis that is changing American auto-buying habits. Cars and trucks use up 40%, or 7.4 million bbl. a day, of all the petroleum burned in the U.S. The oil price explosion has sent the average cost of gasoline from 350 per gal. four years ago to 700 today, and that figure is sure to rise as a result of the latest increases by Iran, Kuwait, Libya, Algeria and other OPEC members. Spot shortages of low-polluting unleaded gasoline are already occurring, and its price is expected to climb to $1 or more...
Prices of 73.5? per gal. for unleaded were common in Miami last week, as were 77.9? per gal. in Atlanta and 78.9? per gal. in Jackson, Miss. Dealers in New Jersey were asking 71.9? per gal. for unleaded, and in New York City 88.9? per gal. for unleaded was posted on at least one pump. In Chicago a gallon of Amoco premium unleaded has been going for 96.9? per gal., up 5? in a month. Says a philosophical Mobil station manager in Manhattan: "Customers get upset, but they pay anyway. They grumble, but what can they...
...price differences that they notice from region to region, city to city and even block to block. The reasons for the discrepancies are complex and varied. Taxes can make a big difference. In Chicago myriad federal, state, county and sales taxes add up to about 17? per gal. (the federal tax alone is 4?). But in Houston levies total only 9?, and lucky motorists there were tanking up on regular last week for only 60.9? per gal. at self-service stations. Freight charges vary from next to nothing in an oil-producing state like Texas, to as much...
Even without adding in last week's increases, the average U.S. price of gasoline is scheduled to rise from 69? per gal. now to 84? by the end of 1980 under the Government's control program. In high-cost areas such as New York City and some remote areas of New England the price probably will go to at least 90? and possibly $1. Already, gas, heating oil and other fuels are becoming more expensive...
High on the list of legal horrors is an Arkansas regulation requiring trucks traveling through the state to buy 65 gal. of gas. "You can't realize how ununited the U.S. is unless you drive across it," says Trucker Tom Strampel. The worst regulations, everyone agrees, are those governing the length and weight of tractor trailers. Smack dab in the middle of the U.S. are seven states that allow trucks a gross weight of only 73,280 Ibs. The states on either side permit 80,000 Ibs. Truckers will do anything to avoid the weigh stations ("chicken coops...