Word: conservationism
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We realized that in order to stimulate American production and encourage conservation, our domestic prices would have to rise, but in a predictable and orderly fashion, so that consumers of petroleum products would be protected from unreasonable fuel bills issued by an uncontrolled semimonopoly. Also, the unearned profits from higher...
But with the stabilization of oil prices and disarray of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) came a return to complacency. Americans are in the process of forgetting all they learned about energy conservation. Yet convincing signs--including a recently released repot by the International Energy Agency (IEA) indicate...
But the world energy market is "likely to remain deceptively stable through the mid-1980s." the IEA report says. And therein lies the danger, for people and governments will begin once more to neglect the energy issue and ignore pleas for continued conservation. True, gains have been made that will...
AT ANOTHER end lies the Institute for Conservation Archeology, a branch of the Peabody Museum that sends staff members to tag along on various construction sites in the area, observing and collecting the constructions and artifacts that emerge. (All federally funded construction projects are required to retain conservation archeologists.) The...
The companies have taken care to see that once a section of pipeline is completed and buried, typically to a minimum depth of 42 in., the surface is reseeded and restored for use as range or cropland the following season. Maintenance teams will be permanently based along the lines to...