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...national Strategic Petroleum Reserve. A day later the Clinton Administration announced that it was releasing 30 million of the 570 million bbl. now stockpiled in salt caves along the Gulf Coast of Texas and Louisiana. The idea, said Energy Secretary Bill Richardson, is to correct extreme shortages in the heating-oil supply. "This is not political," he said. "The President wants to help the American people...have enough heat in their homes...
...reserve. But that's not the only reason Gore and his advisers were delighted with Bush's response. Their fear had been that as temperatures dropped and the election approached, Bush would draw blood with his criticism of a Clinton-Gore "do-nothing" energy policy. Most people who heat their homes with oil live in New England, which is solidly for Gore, but a great many also live in battleground states like Pennsylvania and Ohio. Gore had only to think back to Jimmy Carter's 1980 re-election campaign for a time when high oil prices helped defeat a Democrat...
Tauzin kept the heat on Firestone too. He took the firm to task for apparently ignoring its own 1996 high-speed tests, which showed that 1 out of 10 tires at its Decatur, Ill., plant experienced problems. Executive vice president John Lampe insisted that failures under severe conditions are a normal part of the development process--and then promptly turned on Ford. Echoing the sentiment of safety advocates, Lampe stressed that Ford had created a "low safety margin" by recommending a low pressure for tires on the Explorer--26 p.s.i. vs. Firestone's 30. Though Ford picked that level...
...course it was only in fun, but there was real heat in the crowd, good old populism blowing off steam, and after the concert, when the limo took me back to the hotel, I slumped down in the seat lest I be seen...
...humidity don't seem to slow him down. It is only when he reaches the hamlet of Mason's Bend and the home of Alberta Bryant that this bear of a man with a bushy graying beard slips into low gear and momentarily seems to surrender to the heat. Plopping down on Bryant's couch, Mockbee rests his straw hat to the side and catches up with one of his studio's earliest clients...