Word: gals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nearly 30 years had a Democratic Congress overridden a Democratic President's veto.* Still, that was exactly what happened to President Carter's $10 billion oil-import tax last week. The levy, which would have cost the U.S. motorist 10? per gal., was first rejected by huge margins in both houses. So when Carter carried out his threatened veto, the House did not even debate it. It immediately voted to override the President's veto by an embarrassing 335 to 34. From Republican Strategist Robert E. Bauman of Maryland came a victorious yell: "Yahoo!" Next...
...case looked like a strong one. Oil imports are still running at a ruinous 6 million bbl. a day, and a new tax would probably cut consumption. Indeed some experts urge a fee of not 10? but 50? or more (most European nations now charge nearly $2 per gal. in taxes). Even so, claims the Administration, the 10? charge would save 100,000 bbl. a day. Congress's refusal to impose any tax will therefore be hard to explain when Carter goes to Venice later this month to coordinate allied energy policies...
...Pullman (pop. 21,000), students from Washington State University jammed the Barley and Hops tavern for "eruption specials," $1 pitchers of beer. In Yakima, which was coated with half an inch of dust, the owner of an auto body shop jokingly put ash on sale for 500 per gal. but got no takers. Hosing or shoveling the ash was only a slightly more effective way of getting rid of it. Complained Yakima Mayor Betty Edmondson: "Wet ash turns into a slurry that is just about impossible to shovel...
...last spring-$1.20 for a gallon of regular, vs. 77? last year -and sure to go up again soon. Prices now range from $1.14 in San Antonio to $1.27 in Chicago. Deputy Energy Secretary John Sawhill said last week that gasoline prices would soon increase up to 8? per gal., owing to decontrol of domestic crude oil prices and further OPEC rises. In a recent Gallup poll, 87% of those surveyed said that higher prices had pushed them to reform their driving habits. Even in autoerotic Los Angeles, the number of car pool applications received by the state transportation department...
Together, the rises are expected to drain at least $20 billion out of the treasuries of oil-importing nations. They will also add anywhere from 1? to 2? per gal. to U.S. gasoline prices. That in turn is beginning to raise some doubt as to whether inflation, which the White House hopes will show substantial improvement by late summer, will actually decline by that much after...