Sentences with phrase «long gas lines»

i don't know how old you are — but i remember the long gas lines back in 1973 during the oil crisis.

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries began an embargo that triggered an oil crisis resulting in long gas lines across the country — if gas was available at all.

This was most Americans» first experience with long gas lines and high prices for fuel and served as a backdrop for the continued erosion of the stock market.

Not exact matches

Data firms and analysts agree that while the long weekend was a bust, the overall season should still be in line with original forecasts, what with lower gas prices, rising consumer confidence and a slowly but surely improving job market.

The lines for the gas stations and ATMs were so long that I didn't even bother.

In February of 1974 lines at the gas stations grew long and tempers grew short.

New features in the third edition include updated and reorganized information on gas delivery and beer dispense on direct - and long - draw systems, important safety tips in easy to read sidebars throughout the manual, and updated line cleaning recommendations that reflect current best practices.

The revenue from Spectra Energy, which comes in the wake of the Algonquin gas line project, is a long sought boost to the town's bottom line.

Cuomo said he would consider how to ensure that certain gas stations have backup power, to prevent the long lines and customer panic seen after superstorm Sandy.

Drivers formed long lines at the few gas stations with fuel for weeks after the storm.

Their critics say the weapons are just the latest in a long line of lethal inventions that have increased man's brutality to man — successors to the Maxim automatic machine gun, the flame thrower, and mustard gas.

The researchers then trained the Very Long Baseline Array of radio telescopes — a line of dishes that stretches about 8000 kilometers, from Mauna Kea, Hawaii, to St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands — on the source of the gas, an object they called Source I (pronounced «source eye»).

The Walt Disney Co. yesterday announced new guidelines for sourcing paper used in its popular lines of products and packaging, citing its long - standing commitment to conservation and greenhouse gas emissions reduction.

The short - and long - wave absorptivities of the most important greenhouse gases water vapour, carbon dioxide, methane and ozone are derived from line - by - line calculations based on the HITRAN08 - databasis and are integrated in the model.

«Interstellar clouds are permeated by magnetic fields that we believe to be effectively frozen to the contracting gas; as the gas cloud collapses to form a star, the magnetic field lines should be compressed ever closer together, giving rise to enormous magnetic fields, long before the collapse is completed.

Blindfolded, you could find it hard to tell that the Chevrolet S - 10 Blazer is a truck - as long as you are traveling in a straight line on a paved road.But, if the driver were to take a sudden turn onto the dirt, it would take only a bounce or two to make you aware that this popular sport - utility vehicle, indeed, has the heart, soul - and suspension - of a truck.1,000 - pound payload capacity, including driver, passengers and cargo; maximum 6,000 - pound towing capacity when equipped with proper trailering equipment; rear - wheel anti-lock brake system; low - pressure gas - charged shock absorbers.

Longest - lasting line of pickups Best - in - class ride and handling with exclusive link coil rear and auto - level air suspensions Best - in - class fuel economy and longest range with exclusive EcoDiesel — 29 mpg and 754 miles with Ram 1500 Best - in - class gas towing — 16,320 pounds with Ram 2500 Highest snow plow rating — Ram 2500 and 3500 Most interior space with Ram Mega Cab Most capable fullsize off - road pickup — Ram Power Wagon

Longestlasting line of pickups Highest owner loyalty of any halfton pickup Bestinclass ride and handling with exclusive link coil rear and autolevel air suspensions Bestinclass fuel economy and longest range with exclusive EcoDiesel — 29 mpg and 754 miles with Ram 1500 Bestinclass gas towing — 16,320 pounds with Ram 2500 Highest snow plow rating — Ram 2500 and 3500 Most interior space with Ram Mega Cab Most capable fullsize offroad pickup — Ram Power Wagon

A long line of investors are ahead of Repsol in buying shares of North American oil and natural gas companies.

Bottom Line: As long as you don't mind all the hoops you have to jump through when it comes to rewards, the Sam's Club Mastercard provides excellent value on gas, travel, and dining purchases.

Bottom Line: Unless you are a high restaurant, supermarket, and gas station spender, there is very little to be gained out of the Hilton Surpass card that isn't handled better by other credit cards — both in terms of short - term and long - term value.

Bottom Line: The Wells Fargo Propel American Express ® Card is a solid credit card for those interested in optimizing long - term gas and restaurant rewards.

- long natural - gas - fired oven produces kibble and treats for Hi - Tek's priority lines and private label accounts.

Despite its high annual fee, the Blue Cash Preferred card is one of our favorite cards for families: It helps take the sting out of car pool lines and long commutes by offering a generous point bonus on gas station spending and it offers one of the highest cash back bonuses you can get when you use your card at U.S. supermarkets.

With a top of the line gas barbecue and a beautiful banquet table designed in the rustic, driftwood style popular on Bonaire, this place will offer you long and cozy nights!

You hit the gas while savoring the mental images of the long, perfect lines about to be served up.

Unfortunately, the concept runs out of gas long before it lumbers toward the finish line.

The short - and long - wave absorptivities of the most important greenhouse gases water vapour, carbon dioxide, methane and ozone are derived from line - by - line calculations based on the HITRAN08 - databasis and are integrated in the model.

Launched last year, the overall research effort is designed to collect methane emissions data associated with natural gas production, gathering lines and processing facilities, long - distance pipelines and storage, local distribution, and commercial trucks and refueling stations.

There's no better way to recall the long - haul nature of this process than to re-read the closing line from a New York Times article laying out the basics on greenhouse gases and climate as they were understood in 1956:

Progress around the game board is hindered when your game piece (outgoing photon) lands on a slide (greenhouse gas molecule) that sends you backwards (photon emitted back downward), but eventually your game piece will make it to the finish line (space), it'll just take longer.

Global warming has of late felt like a new issue, but it's useful once in a while to review the generations - long line of analysis that points to substantial climatic and environmental consequences from rising emissions of greenhouse gases.

Jesse Ausubel long ago also noted that natural gas is a far better bet to link with carbon capture (through «zero emission power plant» technology), if you think carbon capture and sequestration is a serious prospect down the line.

A gas molecule can not radiate as long as its energy is lower than the energy of a photon of the lowest emission line in its line spectrum.

OK, long lines of cars with Canadian license plates at gas stations in Washington.

Long lines formed at gas stations as people sought fuel to power backup generators.

The red line incorporates natural influences like changes in solar output and volcanic activity but virtually all of the long - term warming is attributable to human - caused increases in greenhouse gasses.

A likely answer is that California is so focused and busy on environmental projects that redistribute wealth to various constituencies that they no longer are concerned about public safety (the San Bruno natural gas line explosion in San Francisco in 2010, the constant blow ups of water pipes under the streets of Los Angeles, the retrofitting of the San Onofre Nuke Plant, so that it could be a peaker plant that could ramp up and down to back up intermittent green power, failed and the plant was shut down eventually resulting in the South West Blackout in 2011).

The New Policy Scenario trends are in line with stabilising the concentration of greenhouse gases at over 650 parts per million (ppm) of CO2 - equivalent (eq), resulting in a likely temperature rise of more than 3.5 °C in the long term.

In the case of the Northwest Shelf, gas - fired power plants outside Port Hedland could transmit electricity to Sydney over long - distance HVDC power lines instead of piping the natural gas itself to gas - fired power plants in, say, the Hunter Valley.

Assertion: «getting anywhere close to 20 % of our final energy from RES will require a total redesign of the power system with heavy investments in flexible power plants, long distance transmission lines, demand response and energy storage» — most Western countries have gas networks easily able to carry the (P2G generated) gas needed for those «flexible power plants».

that it would no longer be investing directly in new oil and gas pipelines (though it's worth noting that US Bank does continue to provide billions of dollars in «lines of credit» to companies building tar sands pipelines).

It is our duty to force that time as quickly as we possibly can, and it may arrive sooner than we think: Earlier this month US Bank became the first bank in the United States to announce that it would no longer be investing directly in new oil and gas pipelines (though it's worth noting that US Bank does continue to provide billions of dollars in «lines of credit» to companies building tar sands pipelines).

Indeed, throughout the long oil and gas history of the Appalachian Mountains, where the world's first oil well was drilled in 1859, drillers have known of «shows» of gas from the shale, brief blasts that would blow methane - charged water out of the hole, or tangle the drilling lines.

Meanwhile, numerous industry efforts are underway to further exploit stressed public lands and perpetuate fossil - fuel dependence through the extraction of coal, oil and gas, oil shale and tar sands, and liquefied natural gas development — as well as uranium mining and milling and the construction of energy corridors and long - distance electric transmission lines.

The bold line in the bottom graph shows the modeled spectral results including the effects of the long - term changes in the trace gases CO2, O3, N2O, CH4, CFC11 and CFC12.

And even if Ohio's nuclear plants were entirely replaced with natural gas, the result will be that other coal plants in Ohio and neighboring states will stay on - line longer, resulting in more premature deaths.

The different colour lines indicate four future greenhouse gas scenarios known as «Representative Concentration Pathways» — and two extra scenarios that specifically represent the 1.5 C and 2C long - term temperature goals of the Paris Agreement.

I was riding my bike to the store last weekend when I saw a long line of cars waiting to fill up at the corner gas station.

Long a hard - line opponent to climate - friendly carbon limits, Exxon began to soften its outlook and embrace the need to curb greenhouse gases in 2006 when Rex Tillerson succeeded Lee Raymond as chairman and CEO.