Word: gallons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problems lie not with the processing or marketing of the fuel itself. Gasohol is already sold at more than 1,000 gas stations across the country. Since gasohol seems to offer slightly better acceleration in exchange for only fractionally less mileage per gallon, it is also increasingly popular with drivers...
...Congress approves, the program would also extend to the year 2000 the exemption that gasohol now enjoys from the 40 federal tax on each gallon of gasoline. The tax break adds up to 400 per gal. of ethanol since there is only 10% alcohol in each gallon of gasohol. The benefit only partly offsets gasohol's cost disadvantage. The wholesale price of a gallon of ethanol can be as much as $1.70 vs. about 85? for premium unleaded gas; at the pumps, gasohol typically retails for 6? to 8? more even with the federal tax advantage. Adding together...
...words. More beer. A tank's Red Star decal grumbles past the screen in telephoto proportions, and yet another correspondent reports that an estimated 10,000 Soviet troops are gathering on the Iranian border, within striking range of potential petroleum products that fetch more than a dollar a gallon on the street...
...throughout the price spectrum. It is a truism that today's "jug" wines -bottles containing 1.75 liters at prices ranging from $3.50 to $5-are superior to the more expensive premium wines of a decade ago and right-years better than the vin ordinaire that gurgles by the gallon down French gullets. A major step in the de-Colanization process has been marked by vintage labeling, meaning that at least 95% of the wine in the bottle was grown in the stated year rather than blended with other vintages. (While Golden State boosters have often maintained that every year...
...guide government to uninterrupted propserity was so high that the Nobel committee in Stockholm created an annual prize in the field. 1970 was the end of the so-called "Go-Go" years on the stock market, when anyone could make a buck, gasoline was still 35 cents a gallon, there was little unemployment and low inflation. Government could anything...