Word: oiled
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Quayle's council has also fought an increase in the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards which would raise fuel efficiency standards 20 percent by 1996 and a further 20 percent by the year 2001. Such regulations would, according to energy experts, save two million barrels of oil per day and eliminate 300 million tons of carbon dioxide by the year 2008. However, Quayle and his council rejected the proposal, arguing that it would force the automobile industry to produce lighter and smaller cars that would result in greater traffic fatalities...
...Bacon said, "Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed." Or, to use an economic metaphor, spending your seed capital may bring short-term prosperity but in the end leaves you broke because there's nothing left to invest and no more money coming in. Similarly, using up all the oil will eventually put auto companies out of business...
...dishwasher, shoe salesman and milkman in Little Havana while editing an anti-Castro paper funded by Jose Bosch, the Bacardi rum magnate. Mas signed on with the aborted 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion and once tried to outfit a B-26 aircraft with bombs to hit Cuba's oil refineries...
...Continent's southern flank, villages on the Aegean islands were busily trading olive oil, wine and pottery with the Greek mainland and Crete. In Crete fashionable women sported ankle-length dresses, with necklines low enough to make Madonna blush. (The art of weaving originated more than a millennium earlier.) And in the Balkans metallurgists were hard at work crafting elaborate tools of lead, copper and iron and spectacular ornaments of gold...
...transportation improved, thanks to the wheel, sailing ships and the domestication of donkeys, connections between far-flung villages and towns expanded dramatically. A flourishing international trade developed in copper ore, gold, ivory, grain, olive oil, wine and other wares. Explains anthropologist Brian Fagan of the University of California at Santa Barbara: "This was the beginning of a global economy...