Word: conservationism
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The government would not necessarily create jobs, but would pay teenagers to help non-profit organizations or to repair and build public facilities, in groups modelled after the New Deal's Civilian Conservation Corps. Some proponents have suggested that the money would come out of cuts in the military, a...
Many U.S. energy experts fear that a drop in oil will undermine conservation efforts and ultimately boost demand for foreign oil supplies. Some, including James McKie, economics professor at the University of Texas, favor a tax on imported oil to keep the price of crude from dipping below $30 in...
NAHS will also promote energy conservation and weatherization improvements, officials said yesterday. "For many low-income residents," explained Rosenberg, "fuel costs are getting to be as high as rent."
Not that ad budgets have escaped the Reagan Administration's ax. The Internal Revenue Service will be forced to rerun old ads this month urging Americans to file early; there is no money in the IRS budget for new advertising. The gutted Energy Department was not was not heard...
TRYING to achieve energy independence through artificially high oil prices would be foolish because it wouldn't work. The recent history of the auto industry exemplifies the clumsiness of high prices as a mechanism to promote conservation. Detroit continued to manufacture gas-guzzlers long after gas prices soared, as auto...