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Some lessons are hard to learn. Three times in the past two decades, the U.S. has been burned by its unbridled appetite for energy and its dependence on foreign oil. First came the OPEC embargo in response to the Arab-Israeli war of 1973. Iran administered the second oil shock...
Next week the President is expected to unveil a national energy policy that will favor increased use of natural gas and nuclear power and stepped-up oil exploration -- including a controversial proposal to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. But the plan is almost certain to ignore any significant...
The big gunners were three White House aides: Budget Director Richard Darman, White House chief of staff John Sununu and Michael Boskin, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. The troika treated most measures that would compel conservation as unwarranted government interference in the free market. "Watkins' proposals just got...
That left him no time to address the recommendation of some Energy Department and White House budget officials for a gas tax big enough to encourage fuel conservation and fund the costly search for alternative sources (every penny a gallon raises an extra billion dollars). Bush ducked the issue even...
However, Cambridge Conservation Commission Director Elizabeth Epstein, the city's official spokesperson on the committee, was less optimistic, saying that "the city's position has not changed one iota" from its initial opposition to Scheme Z. She said she would be hard-pressed to consent to the River Crossing or...