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price
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Then it ordered a 21 percent hike in gasoline prices , the fifth increase in 43 days.
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The gas tax rollback, initiated because gasoline prices spiked this spring, has since fallen by the wayside.
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He noted California experienced two big gasoline price increases in the 1990s.
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The decline was in part due to a sharp drop in gasoline prices .
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With gasoline prices recently hitting their highest level in five years, is Walker driving less to save money?
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It was kicked off when gasoline prices shot up so fast the climb would make a Blue Angels pilot gulp.
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If a $ 2 increase were passed through to the pump, gasoline prices could rise by 5 per gallon.
tax
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Democrats note that Dole voted several times for gasoline tax increases totaling 10 cents in the 1980s.
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Bond revenue and special funds like the highway account fueled by the gasoline tax are earmarked in advance.
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Canceling the gasoline tax , a la Dole, will deepen them again.
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Dole was seeking to push his own issue, eliminating the 4. 3-cent gasoline tax that Clinton pushed in 1993.
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For example, gasoline taxes are typically earmarked for the financing of highway construction and repairs.
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But nobody fuses much over daily expenditures on sales and gasoline taxes -- even though they add up to large sums annually.
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Dole is leading the push in Congress for repealing the gasoline tax .
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leaded
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In the United State, use of leaded gasoline was phased out on Jan. 1.
unleaded
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February unleaded gasoline fell 3. 75 cents to 54. 44 cents a gallon.
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February unleaded gasoline rose 0. 80 cent to 53. 90 cents a gallon.
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February unleaded gasoline fell 0. 46 cent to 58. 19 cents a gallon.
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After the war everything cost more: gasoline , buses, hotel accommodations, and musicians' salaries.
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At gasoline stations it is illegal for customers to pump more than 10 gallons a minute.
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February unleaded gasoline fell 3. 75 cents to 54. 44 cents a gallon.
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Improved gasoline yields of up to 25 percent have been achieved using them.
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In Connecticut, a Waterbury man suffered a fatal heart attack Sunday night after going outside to fill his snowblower with gasoline .
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The main gasoline engine can be turned and its valve gear operates.
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The National Rifle Association says taggants in gunpowder might act like a match struck near gasoline .
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Three hundred gallons of gasoline were loaded today.