Estimates were provided for sources of primary aerosols including on-road gasoline, off-road gasoline, on-road diesel, off-road diesel, wood smoke, meat cooking, high-sulfur fuel combustion (including distillate oil, marine vessel fuel, aircraft jet fuel, liquid and solid waste fuel), and "other anthropogenic".
In 2006, two years after recovering from Stage 4 cancer, Mr. Douglas set a match to a pile of dead leaves he had doused with gasoline, setting off an explosion that sent him flying.
That is a marked increase from less than three years ago, when Congress enacted an energy law that included a national mandate for the increased use of renewable fuel in gasoline, setting off the ethanol rush.
Passing day labor centers, retirement homes and commuters craning into rear-view mirrors, they announced their arrival in raucous splendor on Main Street, where they smiled for the cameras as the sickly sweet smell of gasoline burned off under the desert sun.
Why does gasoline set off different, shriller alarms than other things we consistently buy?
Discount retailers like Wal-Mart Stores, Costco Wholesale and TJX fared particularly well as price-conscious customers spent federal income tax rebate checks on groceries, gasoline and off-price clothing.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency poured equipment and supplies into the area, including gasoline to head off a possible fuel shortage.
The number is the same whether that gallon takes you 70 miles in a Honda Insight (the new hybrid that saves gasoline by shutting off the engine at stop signs and turning energy lost in braking into electricity for acceleration) or the four-wheel-drive Range Rover, at about 13 miles a gallon.
Although I expect gasoline to back off a little from the $3.20 level we're seeing now, it certainly won't go back to $2. Higher gasoline and heating oil prices feed inflation, causing the yield on the ten-year Treasury note to rise.
