Word: gals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...miles in a ten-hour driving day; at 16? a mile, that translates to $24 less every working day for a hired driver and, at 40? a mile, $60 less each day for an owner-operator. » Fuel prices: Until three months ago, diesel fuel averaged around 27? per gal. Now it costs 45? to 51? and has gone as high as 80? at the pumps of at least one Ohio truck stop. Typically, a trucker grosses $300 hauling a load between Pittsburgh and Chicago and keeps $55 as profit. Rocketing fuel prices now slash that profit...
...that has been processing 47,000 bbl. per day of crude for small independent oil companies. Small oil distributors will be really pinched. John Fiore has been supplying diesel fuel to barges, tugs and fishing boats in Boston harbor for 40 years, recently at the rate of 60,000 gal. a week. Last week he sold none, because he could get none...
Over the long Thanksgiving weekend, travelers often found gas stations closed. Some that were open raised prices. On the Black Horse Pike between Philadelphia and Atlantic City, a Shell station owner was retailing premium for 86.7? per gal. Presumably, some thought was given to all of this over the afternoon turkeys; on Thanksgiving night and Friday, drivers noted widespread obedience of new legal limits. Many people just kept off the highways altogether. Amtrak, the national passenger rail service, had to get "every available coach" out of mothballs to meet an unexpected flood of business...
...arguments for rationing are simple. It would enable the Government to regulate consumption fairly precisely by printing ration coupons for, say, only 1.4 billion gal. per week; no more could be legally sold. (Actually, cards similar to credit cards might be used instead.) More important, under rationing the Government would at least attempt to dole out supplies on the basis of the need to drive, rather than ability to pay. The rich could not buy up all the gasoline, and the poor would be assured of some fuel. Even the most vocal advocates, however, concede that rationing has flaws. Banker...
Simply by keeping his auto tires properly inflated to reduce friction, a driver can save as much as 50 gal. of gas per year. Still another 75 gal. can be saved by keeping an engine in tune: ignition timed, carburetor checked, pollution-control valve cleaned, filters and spark plugs repaired or replaced...