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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...must be cautious and watchful even if a tax package is passed to prevent the cuts, Vellucci said. He warned that added revenue from the tax packages could be used for other purposes, citing a case several years ago in which gas taxes were raised by five cents per gallon with no corresponding improvement in state infrastructure...

Author: By Michael P. Mann, | Title: Council Readies for Election | 11/7/1989 | See Source »

...stayed in Texas. Jason and the Scorchers played a number of painfully bad songs, all in the same chord, and the group left the audience numb with fear. This garbage band did its best to sound like outlaws of rock 'n' roll, but despite lead singer Jason's 10 gallon hat, The Scorchers more resembled Megadeath than Tom Petty. But their set wasn't a total loss; the guitarist had some mean tattoos...

Author: By Adam E. Pachter, | Title: How Does it Feel? | 10/27/1989 | See Source »

...surface by 15-ft. tides. "We treated some of those areas as many as seven times," says Exxon spokesman David Sexton. In all, the company says, it recovered 61,000 bbl. of the 260,000 spilled. The $1 billion spent on the cleanup translates into $390 for each gallon of oil recovered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Stain Will Remain On Alaska | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...trucks, they produce nearly one-third of its automotive air pollution. When EC-1 goes on sale next month at 700 Arco stations across Southern California, the company said, it will be priced the same as leaded fuel, though the new gas costs a few cents more a gallon to produce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fill 'Er Up With Gas Lite | 8/28/1989 | See Source »

...reductions in tail- | pipe emissions; the controls he did propose nationally for gasoline-driven cars are less stringent than those that California has already enacted. Use of the new fuels would require an expensive redesign. For example, because a car can travel only about half as far on a gallon of methanol as on a gallon of gas, automakers would have to build cars with bigger fuel tanks. Worse, motorists would probably not want to buy methanol cars until the fuel was widely available, and gas stations would probably not install methanol pumps until large numbers of cars using that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Smell That Fresh Air! | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

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