Word: oil
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...waste, which was declared low-level toxic by a state commission earlier this year, is thought to come from heating oil used in homes which stood on the site a few years...
There was some oil found there, but it's being removed according to [Department of Environmental Protection] regulations," said Marilyn Lyng O'Connell, co-director of the Office for Government and Community Affairs. "There was speculation it was heating oil...
...Oil companies may have little choice. While the House subcommittee did not take up the question of alternative fuels last week, it is expected to do so this month. On the table is a White House proposal that would require automakers to start selling cars that run on gasoline substitutes by 1995. Car companies would be told to produce 500,000 such vehicles the first year and 1 million units a year beginning in 1997. Among possible substitutes: methanol, a high-octane alcohol derived from wood; ethanol, or "gasohol," a blend of gasoline and grain alcohol; and compressed natural...
...most oil companies have seemed more eager to denounce the alternative fuels than to develop new products. Mobil has run ads attacking methanol as polluting, expensive and more dangerous than gasoline if accidentally swallowed. Although the fuel produces far fewer smog ingredients than gasoline, it releases more formaldehyde, a suspected cause of cancer. Cars would get less mileage from methanol because it burns faster than gasoline. Yet Indianapolis 500 racers have used methanol for years because it boosts horsepower and is less flammable in accidents; U.S. automakers have developed experimental cars that run on both methanol and gasoline...
...oil companies have been slow to respond to such initiatives. Atlantic Richfield was the first in Southern California; last summer it introduced a clean-burning unleaded gasoline designed to power older vehicles built to use leaded fuel. The Los Angeles-based company said the new brand, Emission Control-1, has been favorably -- if not overwhelmingly -- received since it replaced Arco's leaded gas last month. Edward Reilly, senior vice president for marketing, said EC-1 sales were slightly ahead of previous levels for leaded gas, although the two fuels cost the same...