Word: gals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second time in a decade, energy scare stories have become the stuff of headlines: motorists who confront the prospect of a summer of gasoline shortages at $1 per gal.; homeowners who have visions of dollar bills fluttering up the chimney every time the oil burner in the basement trips on. Angry and resentful, people are blaming the one institution that not only grows richer every time there is an oil squeeze, but is as close at hand as the nearest service station: the $360 billion-a-year U.S. oil industry...
...source, OPEC oil is cheaper than dirt. The cost of drilling, pumping and moving it from the Saudi Arabian deserts to Persian Gulf ports, for example, is about 30? per bbl. That is less than 1? per gal, since there are 42 gal. in one barrel. But by the time the crude is shipped, refined and sold as gasoline to U.S. motorists, the price rises more than...
...sulfur dioxide per cubic meter of air, or up to four times the level that the World Health Organization considers safe. Nearly half the pollution comes from cars. Despite high prices for vehicles and fuel (the government two weeks ago raised the price of gasoline to $2.95 per gal.), nearly 100,000 automobiles are sold in Greece each year; 3,000 driver's licenses are issued in Athens monthly...
...gasoline nudged toward $1 per gal., and growing numbers of service stations around the country rationed sales to $5 or less per customer, Congress began battling over Jimmy Carter's plan to raise fuel prices still higher. Already the strategy is drawing heavy fire from left and right for being everything from a giveaway to Big Oil to a bureaucratic interference with private business to a dangerous new fuel for inflation...
Kerslake does not find the evidence. But Farley stumbles on a diary: Lord Belly, it turns out, is Sarah's true father. Having impregnated the wanton Lady Jean, milord bribed an impecunious army officer to marry the gal. Lady Jean's memoir also records in damning detail Bellmaster's murders of two accomplices. Intelligence, fearful of security leakage, gives Kerslake a license to kill...