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The council also set up an "Energy Management Commission" to coordinate conservation efforts within the city.
The final, necessary thrust is a series of conservation moves, including standby rationing. Without rationing, Bradshaw fears the U.S will face the hard choice of either shortages or import surges in the early 1980s. Domestic reserves are declining, and while there is potential for vast discovery deep below the hostile...
¶ "Discipline by greater conservation of energy"; a new gasoline tax will be levied.
Revenues. They will be raised in two ways. Carter will ask Congress to institute a new withholding tax on interest and dividends. "It is intolerable for some to evade prompt payment of taxes," he said. That move alone would increase revenues by $3 billion in fiscal 1981, but much of...
(8 of 10) deficits, and 2) to the extent that a cutback in driving reduces oil imports, the U.S. will make itself less vulnerable to petroleum price increases that the OPEC cartel may decree. But the fee will not spur all that much conservation: a reduction of only 100,000...