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-- Invest in personal energy conservation: an auto tune-up, home insulation and, when you need new ones, the most efficient appliances and vehicles.
But doesn't cheap foreign oil create the danger of dependency? Well, what is that danger? It is twofold: a run-up of price and a cutoff of supply. True, our interest is in paying as little as possible for oil in the long run, not just today. Too low...
The only salvation is conservation. Since Wayne Wyatt, manager of the High Plains Water Conservation District in Lubbock, Texas, began advising local farmers on water savings ten years ago, some have cut losses from evaporation from 40% to as little as 2%. Bill Buckman, a third-generation Lubbock farmer, says...
Some parts of the West will remain vulnerable with or without conservation. Southern California gets roughly half of its water from a single canal system, the California Aqueduct, which carries water from the Sacramento River Delta 800 km (500 miles) south to Los Angeles. Mark Reisner, author of Cadillac Desert...
TAXES. Americans pay too little for energy generally and for gasoline in particular. A 50 cents per gal. gasoline tax phased in over five years would encourage conservation and raise $50 billion in revenues. It would also help the environment by reducing CO2 emissions and other pollutants.