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...transport system currently delivers 13 million barrels per day to and from U.S. refineries. At peak output, the SPR can pump only about 3.5 million barrels per day, and that only for three months. Then it's gone. Without stringent conservation measures--ideological anathema to Bush and his predecessor--the SPR won't last very long. What does Bush intend to do when the U.S. has used up the SPR? Won't prices creep up again (assuming they fall in the first place...
Hooten, a College Pro painter, had used the van since May to transport paint and ladders. There was no paint thinner or other combustible materials in the van when it caught fire, he said. Hooten estimated the value of the van and its contents...
...America back on the trains. Railroads are by far the most fuel-efficient form of passenger transportation, achieving nearly 10 times the number of passenger-miles per gallon as cars. Yet the U.S. is stuck with the pathetically inadequate and ineffecient Amtrak system, the rolling laughingstock of the industrial world. Despite large subsidies, Amtrak remains hamstrung by union featherbedding, bureaucratic stupidity, and the inability to compete with other modes of transport...
...shortage of bread in Moscow reached such proportions last week that Mayor Gavril Popov proposed wage hikes for bakery workers to attract more employees and even suggested that army conscripts be pressed into service at the ovens. The list of excuses -- breakdowns and labor problems at factories, outdated equipment, transport troubles and an unexpected rise in demand for bread -- sounded all too familiar to Russians, who are already fuming over the scarcity of cigarettes. As the government daily Izvestia sardonically noted: "We should not be surprised by the fact that yet one more item has gone on the list...
...bottleneck. The Navy has only eight SL-7 fast-logistics ships specifically designed for such work, and two have already broken down at sea; one is being towed across the Atlantic. In a pinch like this, the Navy is supposed to be able to reactivate its mothballed fleet of transport vessels. It has ordered up 41 of them, but so far only 25 have got under way. The Navy last week was chartering 15 American and foreign cargo ships to pick up the slack...