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...nation's oil import bill from about $62 billion this year to more than $83 billion, representing a rise in fuel costs of $80 for every American citizen. The increase, said Energy Secretary Charles Duncan, could add from 4? to 8? to the retail price of a gallon of gasoline in the coming weeks, and 3? to 7? to the cost of home heating oil, a major expense for consumers in the import-dependent Northeast. Several of the largest oil companies, including Exxon, Mobil, Chevron and Texaco, last week announced wholesale gasoline price increases...
Proper house insulation is the first prerequisite for the effective use of any energy-saving device. The newly designed $1,400 Blueray furnace, for example, captures as much as 90% of the energy that is locked in a gallon of heating oil, vs. the 70% recovered by a conventional furnace. But it makes no sense to install highly efficient equipment in the basement if all the additional heat generated escapes through leaky baseboards, wall sockets, attics, exhaust fans and chimneys, where up to 85% of a home's heat loss occurs...
...guzzling American consumer, Schwartz has taken Detroit's downsizing to its extreme by creating a seven-foot-long, three-foot-wide gas-powered mini-Datsun 280-ZX. The $795 car has a single seat, a fiberglass body, and a four-cycle engine. It gets 65 miles to the gallon and reaches a top speed of 15 miles an hour...
Ross L. Pusatere, vice president for marketing of Gibbs Oil, a New England distributor, said yesterday his company has been selling gasohol for about three cents more per gallon than unleaded as "a get-acquainted offer" in 11 stations. "So far the response has been very favorable," he added...
Hansen said ethanol currently costs about $1.61 a gallon, but that experts working on increasing the efficienty of the distillation process predict the cost will eventually be 85 cents a gallon or lower...