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Higher energy costs will force Harvard to keep strictly to its energy conservation and efficiency guidelines, said Michael N. Lichten, director of physical operations for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS).
Bush's reliance on the SPR to the exclusion of other policy alternatives (such as conservation) is a short-term solution to a problem that requires a long-term commitment. If Bush thinks that the SPR alone can pull the U.S. through the current energy crisis, he is in for...
The oil transport system currently delivers 13 million barrels per day to and from U.S. refineries. At peak output, the SPR can pump only about 3.5 million barrels per day, and that only for three months. Then it's gone. Without stringent conservation measures--ideological anathema to Bush and his...
. Jack the price back up. After oil prices are restored to their free-market level, the U.S. could painlessly slap a punitive tax on the consumption of oil and use the revenue to pay for conservation measures, alternative energy research and mass transit systems. Even if OPEC remains sound, an...
. Waste not, want not. Back in the heydey of OPEC, when gasoline lines stretched for miles, everyone got the conservation bug. Between 1977 and 1985, while the number of registered automobiles increased by 20 percent, oil consumption declined by 15 percent. The energy savings directly attributable to the conservation measures...