Word: reasonlies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...knowledge helped, but Beaty found that the old rules and conventions are under serious attack. Says he: "The independent truckers are trying to blow apart a time-honored system, and that drives the Teamsters, the trucking industry and various politicians and lobbyists right up the wall-all for different reasons." Atlanta's Marc Levinson found himself being driven right up the wall by the independent truckers for another reason. He was twice given wrong directions to a picketing site by truckers who, he concluded, "didn't know where they were striking...
...charge that far too many exemptions have been granted. One example: the rule that farmers should get as much gasoline and diesel fuel as they demanded made sense in early spring, when they were rushing to plant crops. But the regulation was continued too long, and may be one reason why some rural areas now are awash in gasoline while cities...
...needs. Imports are running about 8 million bbl. a day?roughly half of U.S. consumption, up 3% just since late April ?but oilmen estimate that they need an other 500,000 to 1 million to assure an even flow of all products through their refineries. The prime reason for the shortage is that the other members of OPEC have never increased production enough to make up for the curtailment of supplies from Iran. The situation raises two questions: 1) Which products should be rushed out? The Department of Energy has never seemed able to make up its mind whether...
...amends, and succeeded in getting still more deeply mired. He conceded that the dispute over the proper balance between crude stocks and refinery runs is a legitimate difference of opinion, and he softened the threat to take crude away from refiners who do not use it rapidly enough. His reason: if he did that, the refiners might retaliate by importing less oil. Startled reporters asked if the Government was yielding to oil-company blackmail. No, no, said Schlesinger, no company had made any such threat; he was merely worried that he has no authority to force oilmen to import...
...situation in the Midwest had not yet reached panic stage, although some dealers predicted that parts of Michigan and northern Illinois, including Chicago, may feel the pinch beginning this week. The truckers' protest was one reason for apprehension, the inability of a major pipeline running through St. Louis to acquire crude oil was another. The 130 Sunoco stations in Indiana were also running...