Word: gallons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slung, three-wheeled vehicle, which has room for just one person, could get from 1800 to 2000 miles per gallon, according to its builders...
...ARBOR, Mich.--University of Michigan students have constructed a light-weight "Super Mileage Vehicle," with which they hope to break the world's record for automobile mileage of 1750 miles per gallon, The Chronicle of Higher Education said this week...
...students hope to make soon their first competitive test at the Eaton Proving Grounds in Marshall, Mich.; the current course record there is held by a vehicle built at the University of Saskatchewan, which went the equivalent of 1084-miles on a gallon of high-octane fuel...
Miller Brewing Co. and Anheuser-Busch spend millions on advertising to convince us of how tasty, macho and light their beers are [Aug. 16]. Nevertheless, with all the additives in American beer, it tastes as if it were squeezed through dish towels. Many drinkers say they can down a gallon of Danish, German, Mexican or Japanese brew, but after three American cans they feel acidy and bloated. Like the U.S. automobile and television industries, the brewers will learn the hard way that we're not as stupid as they think...
...even slightly. "Conservation of gasoline in the U.S. should be pushed a bit faster and further than market prices alone have done," says James McKie, professor of economics at the University of Texas. He supports a federal gasoline tax of at least 10% of the price of a gallon...