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...still growing in the outskirts of Atlanta, just off Interstate 285. It smells of diesel fuel and looks like a giant J.C. Penney complex, but it is the nearest thing to trucker's heaven yet invented. In it, tired truckers by the hundreds can fill up their 150-gal. tanks, take saunas, wash their clothes, grab a few hours of shuteye, get a quick clutch overhaul and eat their fill. The place has 24 computerized fueling stations that can pump 3 million gal. of gas a month...
...surest way to resolve the problem is to lift price controls. But that is politically difficult because it would boost living costs and thus run counter to the Administration's anti-inflation drive. Last week the DOE estimated that gasoline prices would rise by about 9? a gal. under present price controls by the end of 1980, and by about 13? a gal. if the restraints were lifted. Though the department contends that decontrol would probably not greatly increase the premium on unleaded, now 4.4%, it agrees that under the worst of circumstances, the gap between prices for leaded...
Martha Mitchell was one of 'em...She was just a hell of an interesting gal, and she was with all the power and everything. She was very strong in the White House--Nixon was taking a lot of her advice when he was really down...
...Department of Energy wants to stimulate production. To do so, it has drafted a proposal for decontrol of all gasoline prices, and last week the Administration announced that the President would send a decontrol bill to Congress in mid-January. Decontrol would immediately add up to 4? per gal. at the pump, on top of perhaps a 1½? increase as a result of the expected OPEC price rise. In addition, decontrol of domestic crude oil to bring prices up to world levels, which Carter pledged in Bonn last summer to accomplish by the end of 1980, would...
...cars to run smoothly. To encourage increased no-lead output, as of Dec. 1 the Department of Energy will allow refiners to pass more of the actual costs of producing gas on to consumers, which could mean a further increase in prices from 2? to 4? per gal. In the past year, the average price at the major companies' stations has risen from about 62½? per gal. to more than 67? some Manhattan gas gougers now charge more than 90?. Given the fact that OPEC is about to raise the cost of crude oil again, and that this...