Word: gas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have when he left home--he fit the hose over the exhaust pipe and draped the other end up through a cracked window into the back seat. Then he edged into the front seat, locked the doors, and turned the car on. It had run out of gas by the time a neighbor found him that afternoon. The wallet was open...
...have when he left home--he fit the hose over the exhaust pipe and draped the other end up through a cracked window into the back seat. Then he edged into the front seat, locked the doors, and turned the car on. It had run out of gas by the time a neighbor found him that afternoon. The wallet was open...
...still difficult to persuade Americans that such cynical calculations are pretty much beside the point, that even if the big oil companies were withholding gas supplies in order to await higher prices, the overall scarcity of oil is real, absolute and ultimately irreversible. The U.S., with 28.6% of the industrial West's population, accounts for 70% of its daily consumption of crude oil. Even with U.S. gas prices going up toward $1 a gallon, Americans are still paying unusually low prices; Europeans for years have been paying two or three times as much for gas as Americans. The price...
...mood and the politician's watchful calculation of it. The two intersect in Congress, which seems to be dissolving into dreary incoherence. Congress, with its delicate Geiger counters of mood all activated and ticking gently, refused even to grant the Administration stand-by authority to ration gas-although it is true that Carter's approach on that subject was notably clumsy...
True, Jimmy Carter has delivered a number of soliloquies on the "moral equivalent of war," but the attributes of war remain absent. The problem seems abstract to Americans, except when gas prices rise and stations close...