Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nays appear to have it. William O'Keefe, executive vice-president of the American Petroleum Institute, the voice of the U.S. oil giants, calls a new gasoline tax the worst choice of the lot because it could clobber regions where people drive long miles and would be "extremely regressive." The American Trucking Associations has sent out bulletins to 35,000 trucking companies to begin mobilizing for battle. "We're loading guns," spokesman John Doyle told the Wall Street Journal. The threat of a tax hike worries individuals like Rebecca Harrison, who owns a Los Angeles flooring company with four trucks...
...OIL SPILL COULD BE A FLUKE. TWO SPILLS, and suspicion rises. Three in a row looks like a dangerous trend. So in the wake of the disastrous trio of tanker accidents off the coasts of Spain, Scotland and Sumatra, E.C. ministers convened an emergency meeting in Brussels. The officials proposed policies to ensure that companies spilling oil pay for the damage, and also agreed on the need to declare environmentally sensitive areas off limits to tankers...
British Transport Secretary John MacGregor called the prevalence of substandard vessels an "international disgrace" -- a statement corroborated, oddly enough, by the oil industry. A report by Shell Petroleum indicated that 20% of the world's oil fleet was suitable only for "the scrapyard." At the moment, the world's seaways are becoming scrap-yards. Even as politicians debated what to do, the Maersk Navigator, a Danish supertanker that collided with a ship near Sumatra two weeks ago, was still burning -- and still spewing oil...
...DRILL THAT HAS GROWN ALL TOO FAMILIAR, SALvage and fire-control specialists were rushed to the scene of a burning oil tanker, this time near the entrance to the Indian Ocean's Malaccan Strait. The Danish-owned Maersk Navigator, carrying 78 million gal. of light crude, had collided with an empty Japanese tanker, rupturing one of the loaded vessel's 12 tanks and setting it ablaze. Fortunately, most of the escaping oil quickly burned off or evaporated, calming fears of environmental damage to fishing waters and the coasts of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. By week's end emergency workers...
Some lucky breaks prevent the oil spill from being a disaster...