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An independent board responsible, since 1973, for establishing generally accepted accounting principles. Its official pronouncement are called "Statements of Financial Accounting Standards" and "Interpretations of Financial Accounting Standards."
Industry:Energy
Contains more than 0.05 gram of lead per gallon or more than 0.005 gram of phosphorus pergallon. Premium and regular grades are included, depending on the octanerating. Includes leaded gasohol. Blendstock is excluded until blending has been completed. Alcohol that is to be used in the blending of gasohol is also excluded.
Industry:Energy
An electric railway with a "light volume" traffic capacity compared to "heavy rail." Light rail may use exclusive or shared rights-of-way, high or low platform loading, and multi-car trains or single cars. Also known as "street car," "trolleycar," and "tramway."
Industry:Energy
The implicit price deflator, published by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis, is used to convert nominal figures to real figures.
Industry:Energy
An approximate unit of heat produced by a resting person, equal to about 18.5 Btu per square foot per hour.
Industry:Energy
All single unit two-axle, four-tire trucks, including pickup trucks, sports utility vehicles, vans, motor homes, etc. This is the Department of Transportation definition. The Energy Information Administration defined light truck as all trucks weighing 8,500 pounds or less.
Industry:Energy
The amount of foreign crude oil burned as a fuel oil, usually as residual fuel oil, without being processed as such. Imported crude oil burned as fuel includes lease condensate and liquid hydrocarbons produced from tarsands, gilsonite, and oil shale.
Industry:Energy
A high-intensity discharge lamp type that uses mercury and several halide additives as light-producing elements. These lights have the best Color Rendition Index (CRI) of the high-intensity discharge lamps. They can be used for commercial interior lighting or for stadium lights.
Industry:Energy
Ordinary water (H2O), as distinguished from heavy water or deuterium oxide (D2O).
Industry:Energy
