Word: gallons
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...Boston and Maine locomotive crashed into a tank car on a railroad siding in the Somerville train yard at 9 a.m. yesterday, cutting a large gash in the side of the 13,000 gallon tank and sending the liquid streaming...
...apart under examination. To offset the impact of higher gas prices, on the cost of living, the plan would return most of the revenue to consumers through Social Security tax cuts and increases in benefits for the elderly. Certainly, if the government taxed the consumer 50 cents for every gallon and then gave the same consumber back 50 cents for every gallon he purchased, and if the consumer then used the 50 cents to pay for the tax, the net effect would be nil--not only on inflation, but on conservation. As Anderson explains, "The whole object of the exercise...
...answer, of course, is a combination of rationing and price controls. This program has the advantage of guaranteeing results. The best evidence that Anderson's plan wouldn't achieve its conservation goals is that he is promoting the same size tax now as gas heads toward $1.50 a gallon that he did last year when it was $1.00 a gallon...
...1970s again. They weren't so bad. I was young, not much more than 40, when good old Jerry took over. No one knew which was Iran and which was Iraq. I took a 2,000-mile vacation in a camper that got eight miles to the gallon...
...psychological thrust of the plan blunted, very little remains. Even the administration does not anticipate the budget cuts will reduce the cost of living in the near future. The credit controls apply to a fraction of consumer borrowing too small to be significant. And the 10 cents a gallon fee on gasoline will actually boost the consumer price index an estimated seven tenths of one per cent. Carter seeks to show voters he is doing something now; they will feel the pain later, the benefits never...