What Does Exempt Mean, Anyway? Fund Forum Five years have passed since the imposition of new requirements for Exempt Reporting Advisers under the Dodd-Frank Act.
Forty years ago, gas shortage hit hard. Fred Norris remembers well the gas shortage of 1973. He was owner of Norris Brothers BP on Alamance Road in Burlington. It was a mess, Norris said, recalling peoples reactions to not being able to fill the tanks of their beloved Furys, Impalas, LTDs and other big rides.
In the U.S., where tetraethyllead had been blended with gasoline (primarily to boost octane levels) since the early 1920s, standards to phase out leaded gasoline were first implemented in 1973. In 1995, leaded fuel accounted for only 0.6% of total gasoline sales and less than 2,000 tons of lead per year.