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...thermal efficiency standard will be set for all new residential and commercial structures. If builders or home buyers seek any kind of federal financing, they will have to install standard insulation, weather stripping, storm windows and doors and caulking. Potential savings in oil consumption by 1977: about 120,000 bbl. a day. By 1985: 2.3 million bbl...
...Conservation in existing structures will be encouraged by a probable 15% tax credit on home investments in insulation up to $1,000, meaning a maximum homeowner receipt of $150. Savings by 1977: 77,000 bbl. a day. By 1985: 200,000 bbl...
...grant the auto companies an extension of the deadline, from 1977 to 1981, for further purification of exhaust emissions?perhaps an overgenerous amendment to the Clean Air Act. But the companies argue that they cannot improve mileage without a relaxation of emission standards. Savings by 1977: 114,000 bbl. a day. By 1985: 1.2 million bbl...
...Efficiency standards for appliances will be encouraged by the National Bureau of Standards. 1977 savings: 22,000 bbl. a day. 1985: 286,000 bbl...
PRICE DECONTROL. The Administration will pair its request for excise taxes with a plan to strip away all controls on crude-oil and natural-gas prices. Thus the cost of old oil would float up from $5.25 per bbl. to the world market price, now about $11. Interstate natural gas, now controlled at 28? per 1,000 cu. ft., would be allowed to rise to uncontrolled levels of intrastate gas, now about $1.25. The resulting surge in oil-and gas-company profits would be cut by a special "windfall profits" tax; it would be channeled back to fuel users...