Federal-Aid Highway Act
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Federal-Aid Highway Act
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Abstract
To amend and supplement the Federal-Aid Road Act approved July 11, 1916, to authorize appropriations for continuing the construction of highways; to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide additional revenue from the taxes on motor fuel, tires, and trucks and buses; and for other purposes.
Contents
- The U.S. Oil Industry: Historical Overview
- Oil Discovered in Pennsylvania in 1859
- Anthony F. Lucas: “The Great Oil Well near Beaumont Texas”
- Betty M. Miller: “Oil and Gas Production and Reserve Histories of the Appalachian Basin, 1859–1972”
- Sherman Anti-Trust Act
- Ida M. Tarbell: The History of the Standard Oil Company
- Theodore Roosevelt: Special Message on the Oil Industry
- Standard Oil Company v. United States
- Charles Evans Hughes: Letter on Oil Negotiations with Turkey
- Standard Oil: The Reply to Mexico
- : Upton Sinclair: Oil! A Novel
- book-part : 11
- Roaldus Richmond: “Fill It Up, Sir?”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt: Executive Order 9276, Establishing the Petroleum Administration for War and Defining Its Functions and Duties
- Harold Ickes: Fightin’ Oil
- John C. Reed: Exploration of Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4 and Adjacent Areas in Northern Alaska, 1944–53
- E. J. McNulty: “How Much Oil?”
- Federal-Aid Highway Act
- Clean Air Act Vehicle Emissions Standards
- Richard M. Nixon: Address to the Nation about National Energy Policy
- Arthur F. Burns: Statement before the Joint Economic Committee
- Jimmy Carter: Address to the Nation on Energy
- Establishment of the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund
- Samuel K. Skinner and William K. Reilly: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: A Report to the President
- Jane Lyder: Our Natural Resources at Risk: The Short and Long Term Impacts of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
- Deep Water: The Gulf Oil Disaster and the Future of Offshore Drilling
- Joseph Mikrut: Increasing Domestic Oil Production
- Gavin Newsom: Executive Order N-79-20, Fracking Ban
- Obama Administration Finalizes Historic 54.5 MPG Fuel Efficiency Standards
- : U.S. House Resolution 332: Proposed Green New Deal
- : Donald Trump: Executive Order 14154, Unleashing American Energy