Foreign engineers

There has been considerable discussion and expressed panic for the prospective lack of engineers in the United States. Some skeptics argue that the gap between demand and supply of domestic engineers could be covered by outsourcing work to foreign engineers for less money and, in some cases, better work quality. While there are some engineering jobs that could, and probably should be outsourced, there are others that must remain domestic. If these jobs were outsourced, the security and culture in the United States would suffer. 

Many U.S. and foreign automobile manufacturers are developing a fuel flexible vehicle in the 1990s. Ford has developed FFVs for 5-L engines used... 

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Lubricating oil used in intermittent service must show the least possible variation in viscosity with respect to temperature and must be changed at frequent intervals to remove the foreign matter collected during service. The stabiUty of such oil is therefore of less importance than the stabiUty of oil used in continuous service for prolonged periods without renewal. Lubricating oil for continuous service must be extremely stable because the engines in which it is used operate at fairly constant temperature without frequent shutdown. 

By 1973 about 1.4 million barrels per day of residual fuel oil were used for electric power generation in the United States. This accounted for 16.8 percent of U.S. electricity generation, mostly in areas where cheap, foreign heavy fuel could be delivered by tanker. That same year, another 1.4 million barrels per day of heavy fuel oil were used in the United States for industrial and commercial applications. Worldwide during 1973 about 2.6 million barrels per day of residual fuel oil were used in marine diesel engines, and another 1.1 million barrels per day were used for steamship propulsion. 

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