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Yet from the beginning, there were clubwomen with a more ambitious agenda -- to reform not only themselves but society. Over the years they provided the leadership for the suffragist movement, child-labor reform, conservation, temperance and civil rights. "You have to remember," says Karen Blair, assistant professor of history at...
Reagan thought OPEC was finished. The cartel began to self-destruct in the early 1980's when internecine squabbling and cheating on production quotas rendered it powerless to prop up oil prices. Combined with Carter-era conservation programs, excess production led to a world-wide glut. The price of a...
But now that cheap gasoline is available again, we have forgotten all about the energy crisis. Gas guzzling cars are popular again. The speed limit is 65 miles per hour. Research on synthetic fuels, fusion and other alternative energy sources has been pushed to the back burner. And no one...
Carter's policy of promoting efficiency and conservation vastly reduced demand for oil. The improvement in passenger car fuel efficiency from 1973 levels saved more than twice as much oil in 1986 than was imported from the Persian Gulf. Between 1977 and 1985, while the number of registered automobiles increased...
Now is the time to address the neglected problem of petroleum depletion, before another energy shortage strikes. We must subsidize research for new recovery techniques, synthetic fuel and alternative energy sources. More importantly, we must renew the campaign to reduce demand for energy through conservation.