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For example, a flight from Tokyo to London which now has to head east over the North Pacific, Alaska, Canada, and Greenland has to add 2.4 hours of flight time and is likely to burn around 5,600 gallons more fuel, a 20% increase.

Amex GBT

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re not going to pump any more water than we need to, because it’s an expense, we might have a well that can pump 1,000 gallons a minute, but that doesn’t mean we’re pumping it at 1,000 gallons a minute – we might be pumping it at 500 gallons a minute. We watch our water very closely.

Steve Schmidt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Every single minute, 1,000 gallons of water is coming out of this abandoned mine. It's got a lot of iron and it's acidic, very little life can live in an area that looks like this.

Michelle Shively MacIver

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It takes millions of gallons of water for a golf course, it's going to reach a point when people have to decide,' Do I survive or do I play golf ? Should I have a lawn in the desert or pay a $ 100 for a basket of berries ?'.

Gordon Tharrett

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When pumping begins, up to 5 million gallons a day of water will be pumped from the Red Hill Shaft.

The US Navy

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We would need hectares and hectares [ of seaweed ] to produce a few gallons of oil, to me, producing seaweed for biofuel is like using gold for gravel.

Vincent Doumeizel

Found on CNN
2 years ago

An investigation determined that operator error caused the release of 1,618 gallons of jet fuel( JP-5) from a pipeline inside the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility( RHBFSF) on May 6, 2021, iThe release was not from the fuel tanks.

The Navy

Found on CNN
2 years ago

A gallon of milk was $1.99. Now it's $2.79. When you buy 12 gallons a week times four weeks, that's a lot of money.

Krista Stotler

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Most of our out-of-towners are rescheduling their trips. It’s kind of like when COVID first hit, when you hear oil spill, everyone thinks Exxon Valdez,'' Eric Zelien said, referring to the tanker that ran aground in 1989 in Prince William Sound, Alaska and spilled millions of gallons.

Eric Zelien

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We are scrounging, buying one or two gallons of gas at a time, it's completely unsustainable. I am extremely frustrated.

Kedner Pierre

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If we should have a full breach, within minutes, we're down to about 340 million gallons that could reach in totality, in a period of minutes, and the models for less than an hour, are as high of a 20 foot wall of water, so if you are in an evacuation area, and you have not heeded that, you need to think twice and follow the orders.

Scott Hopes

Found on CNN
2 years ago

While I'm hopeful we get to the 15 billion or more gallons of ethanol that we've been promised, I clearly understand the hesitation from Iowans to trust the word of The EPA to actually follow through on that commitment.

Joni Ernst

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Sheriff Penzone said. The vaping cartridges sell for about $ 50. Theyre not only sold on the black marketbut on social media, too. Detectives were able to track down a dealer near Phoenix who started trying to peddle cartridges on his social media accounts, police said. Vaping cartridges found at an illegal operation to the east of Phoenix. ( Stephanie Bennett/Fox Bennett/Fox News) So 25 gallons of crude and we recovered about 10,000 cartridges total off of that one guyWe located him through advertising to his various clients through social media.he had his own warehouse where he had a large lab set up there, Detective Matthew Shay said. Detectives said making the crude oil is dangerous. Marijuana leaves are washed with harmful chemicals like propane or butane, which extracts the highinducingTHC. Its then mixed with ethanol and distilled several times to make it more translucent, ready for vaping. Marijuana crude oil gets clearer as it's distilled, ready for vaping. ( Stephanie Bennett/Fox Bennett/Fox News) So In 2017, we had seized 16 pounds of crude oil, that number doubled in 2018. Last year, it was over 230, said Sheriff Penzone. As western states started legalizing marijuana, cartels switched production to this stronger, more addictive crude oil marijuanato keep business going. The growth of that industry has been incredible.

Sheriff Penzone

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

ALASKA WOMAN GETS 60 YEARS FOR SETTING COUCH ABLAZE WITH BOYFRIEND ON IT Contra Costa Fire Department spokesman Steve Hill said the tanks held varying amounts of ethanol. One tank alone contained around 167,000 gallons of the flammable substance. Approximately 200 firefighters were battling the blazes using foam on the flames and water to cool adjacent tanks to prevent them from catching fire. Officials closed Interstate 80, one of the busiest in the Bay Area at the peak of rush hour, causing major traffic jams.The California Highway Patrol said the closure was expected to last at least until midnight. CALIFORNIA LYFT DRIVER IS PULLED OVER SO POLICE CAN ARREST HER PASSENGER One Rodeo resident, One Rodeo resident, told The Associated Press he was sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic trying to get home to his teenage son. His son had called him to say he heard a loud explosion. It literally rocked the house and then soon after, he heard what sounded like a jet plane.

One Rodeo resident

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I mopped up over 20 gallons (76 liters) of wine that fell over in addition to the beer, soda and the cooler that fell over. We have several thousand dollars worth of damage.

James Wilhorn

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

An individual walking into an iconic location like St. Patrick's Cathedral carrying over four gallons of gasoline, two bottles of lighter fluid and lighters, is something we would have grave concern over.

John Miller

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The game changer for distillers is the infusion chamber which allows a distiller to play around with infused spirits using their normal wash or low wine, want to make an avocado/mint-infused vodka? You can pilot it on the PicSstill using only a couple gallons of wash or low wine. There is nothing like else like this on the market today that is as agile or automated.

Jim Mitchell

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

In this area, and a lot of New England, we have big old historic homes that burn a couple thousand gallons of oil a year, so when you cut costs in half like we've seen this year, that's a tremendous savings.

Gary Nash

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It will be great if people get a few more gallons out of their money, but it doesn’t mean life will be easy.

John Drew

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This is going to be helpful, it will be great if people get a few more gallons out of their money, but it doesn’t mean life will be easy.

John Drew

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In this area, and a lot of New England, we have big old historic homes that burn a couple thousand gallons of oil a year, so when you cut costs in half like we've seen this year, that’s a tremendous savings.

Gary Nash

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The size of the pool is a lot bigger, we could go from Brazilian imports approaching 250-400 million gallons, depending on which is less costly for fuel blenders.

Scott Irwin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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