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  • Maple flooring was from a sustainable managed forest; the 400 - to 500-gallon rain barrels will save water from the downspouts.

    In Bethesda, a home built to have a net-zero carbon footprint 2010

  • Maple flooring was from a sustainable managed forest; the 400 - to 500-gallon rain barrels will save water from the downspouts.

    In Bethesda, a home built to have a net-zero carbon footprint Elizabeth Festa 2010

  • Sending a 500-gallon mobile fuel tank to Mexico to buy diesel gas for $2 a gallon.

    CNN Transcript Apr 23, 2008 2008

  • ROBERTS: The owner of an Arizona trucking company taking some drastic steps to beat the pinch at the pump, sending a 500-gallon mobile fuel tank to Mexico to buy diesel gas for $2 a gallon, less than half of what it costs in the state of Arizona.

    CNN Transcript Apr 23, 2008 2008

  • They also built themselves a 500-gallon mobile fuel tank.

    CNN Transcript Apr 23, 2008 2008

  • In another "lab" class, second-year students shoveled pungent, purple grapes out of a 500-gallon steel fermenting tank at the college's wine center.

    How a College's Budding Vintners 2008

  • They couldn't send firefighters in with hoses or shovels because the terrain was too steep, so run after run of helicopters diving down at the Merced River, picking up baskets of 500-gallon baskets of water and dropping it onto the ridge in order to stop the fire from progressing.

    CNN Transcript Jul 30, 2008 2008

  • Each liquid flowed from its own container into the main vat, usually a 500-gallon tank — shiny, silver and doused in bleach — from which all sorts of rubber hoses and metal clamps protruded.

    Going Viral 2008

  • WATKISS (voice-over): But even that might not be a solution for very long, because after getting one 500-gallon load across the border, a second trip yesterday caught the attention of U.S. border officials, who stopped the truck, saying that they could transport no more than 119 gallons at a time across the Mexican line.

    CNN Transcript Apr 23, 2008 2008

  • CAMP BUSHMASTER, Iraq - In this dry desert world near Najaf, where the Army V Corps combat support system sprawls across miles of scabrous dust, there's an oasis of sorts: a 500-gallon pool of pristine, cool water.

    Archive 2003-04-01 2003

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