Word: gas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much the same things he had been listening to at Camp David. The Porter-fields and their group declined to talk about what was said, except that the discussion covered "what the people are worried about." William Fisher said, "We talked about a lot of things: the oil shortage, gas lines, SALT. I told him I thought the country was in a downhill spiral with respect to the economy, inflation and gasoline. He agreed with...
With the aftermath of gas lines in California and on the East Coast, they have to come around. My own belief and my own hope is that if I can present the case to the public clearly, the Congress will...
While White House Aide Hamilton Jordan was huddling with his boss up at Camp David, searching for some answers to the gas crisis, the Washington metropolitan police department last week found Hamilton's own gas-guzzling white Chrysler Cordoba parked near his home in Northwest Washington...
...Gas Prices. Despite statutory limits on prices and profits at the retail level for gasoline, the agency's own regulators admit that as much as half of the gasoline sold today is priced higher than the law permits. With only 400 inspectors to police 225,000 gasoline retail outlets, enforcement has been futile. This week the department will increase the legal profits retailers can collect. Thus stations, some of which have closed down in protest, may be able to raise prices another nickel a gallon...
...Gas Allocations. Working from a 400-page set of regulations governing the amounts of gasoline to be distributed to various parts of the country, the department has attempted to foresee changes in demand and to match them with potential supply. It has failed. Even Energy Secretary James Schlesinger says his department's rules have "put the gasoline where the cars are not." Shifting of supplies has alleviated problems for some areas while worsening them for others. Two weeks ago, 21 states were experiencing gas lines. At week's end, the department again modified allocation rules to limit supplies...