Word: set
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most drivers, of course, remained as quietly idle as their engines while they waited as long as four or five hours, at least in the Northeast, to fill their tanks. They read, listened to radios or cassettes, sometimes watched a small TV set installed in their cars. Some chatted with other motorists or bought food and drink from enterprising kids working the lines. But growing anger and frustration all too often erupted in name calling, fistfights, occasional stabbings and shootings. While a gas-station owner in Freemansburg, Pa., rushed to help his bleeding wife, who had been accidentally struck...
...nation is divided into five areas known as Petroleum Administration for Defense Districts (PADDS). Late each month, the oil companies estimate just how much fuel they will have available for sale in each region in the coming month. From this total supply, they subtract 5% to be set aside and distributed at the discretion of state authorities to alleviate local crises. They then subtract the amount they will require to supply all the needs of top priority customers like the military and farmers. The rest gets divided among retail gas stations...
...program has been altered since the shortages began to get bad-the state set-aside was boosted from 3% to 5% so that spot shortages could be eased, and the five-month-average base was introduced in an effort to deal with seasonal population shifts-but the problems have not been solved. Criticisms are now mounting; last week the state of Maryland filed a lawsuit against DOE, challenging the allocation system as unfair. Says Economist Walter Heller: "I've heard it said that if God wanted us to have gasoline, he would never have created the Department of Energy...
...compound the gasoline mess. Says Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal: "The more I'm in the Government, the more market-oriented I become. No bureaucrats with pins at the Department of Energy, trying to figure out how much gasoline each gas station in the country should get, can set out a way to distribute gas in this country." Nor can they fairly and soundly figure out how much gas each driver needs and should...
...more coal mines (including strip mines), build more and safer nuclear plants, construct more oil refineries, drill more offshore wells, develop more oil shale projects. All of these will require some trade-offs with antipollution laws, and none of the projects can be accomplished if small groups of zealots set out to block them while OPEC's new Midases sit back and applaud...