So entrepreneurs stand down, and the people of the Northeast wait in gas lines.
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We've been talking about that since Jimmy Carter when we had those long gas lines.
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The market had fallen by half in 1979, a year of the gas lines, and by half again in 1980.
At least I envied him until the gas lines started forming, and Luigi and I went buzzing by the long, long, long lines.
For days natural gas fires have been burning from ruptured gas lines after Hurricane Sandy ripped up the houses and businesses attached to them.
Since the 1990s Sempra's predecessors had been feeding gas to Baja and won the contract to outfit the town of Mexicali with gas lines.
Today we complain about the temporarily high price of gasoline, but at least we don't have the enervating shortages and gas lines of the 1970s.
Inflation, oil embargoes, gas lines and political scandal culminating in the resignations of Spiro Agnew (October 1973) and Richard Nixon (August 1974) sent stocks straight south.
As you may expect, the gas lines that run to the balloons inflate and deflate the joints, causing the fingers to grasp and release as needed.
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Officials say that at one point earlier this year there was only a half-day's supply of gasoline in all of Baghdad, and gas lines stretched out of sight.
Meanwhile, downed power lines, leaking gas lines, broken water pipes and still-blazing fires have blocked the return of thousands of Southern Californians who fled their homes this week ahead of more than 20 wind-whipped wildfires.
Instead, it was established in response to the Saudi oil embargo in the fall of 1973 (to punish us for our support of Israel in the Yom Kippur War), an embargo that was blamed for fuel shortages and gas lines.
The NYC marathon winner will run the marathon in less time than the average (gas) lines.
Flexibility is necessary to ensure that various types of networks get built (sewage lines, sidewalks, gas and power lines, and even communications systems).
Many petrol stations are already hooked up to gas-lines for heating.
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Even as New Jersey motorists were fueling up with relative ease after a gas-rationing system was put in place on Nov. 3, New York drivers waited in long lines until similar gas-rationing was instituted in the city on Nov. 8.
And he did dumb things: imposing price controls on gasoline, which led to shortages and huge waiting lines at gas stations.
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The front seats on the top bunk, meanwhile, let you pretend to be the driver, enjoying fantastic views of the gas stations and power lines along the scenic I-95.
This more strategic approach would help officials decide, for instance, whether to upgrade gas mains, sewer lines or street lights in certain areas costly decisions that will need to be carefully weighed.
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And since fiber-optic cables are typically run right along with utility pipes--neither phone nor gas companies want to have their lines cut--it's easy to connect a fiber backbone to the gas pipes at the neighborhood level, and beam a signal the final few feet to each home.
High demand equates to better profits, although cheap natural gas prices dent their bottom lines.
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In the 1970s the efficiency peddlers prescribed an easy fix to a nation snarled in endless lines at the gas pump.
Desperate residents -- who at least had enough power to charge their mobile devices -- used social media to try to avoid long lines or empty gas stations.
The Lipsky home in Parker County, Texas sits atop an area in the vicinity of horizontal fracking lines from two gas wells about a mile below the surface.
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After the state rejected the construction of another hard structure, park officials, working with environmentalists, came up with a Plan B: Move gas, water and sewer lines out of the risk zone.
One of these, for chips, is tungsten hexafluoride gas, used to deposit tiny lines of metal in patterns to connect millions of transistors.
As a precaution, police are helping to keep the lines in order at some gas stations.
As I write, there are long lines of cars for waiting for gas below my balcony.
It houses lines of centrifuges which spin uranium gas at a thousand revolutions a second to make fuel for nuclear reactors.
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