Word: conservationism
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THE NATION HAS NEEDED drastic action to reduce energy consumption since 1973 when OPEC delivered its first shock to oil prices. Seven years later, we still need drastic action. Gasoline rationing should be prominent in any energy policy because it guarantees conservation, and does it more equitably than any other...
Attempts to force conservation by imposing gasoline taxes are therefore unlikely to result in significant savings. Americans have proved notoriously unwilling to cut down the number of trips they make each day or to drive slowly for conservation. Public transit ridership has actually decreased from 56 rides per capita in...
A tax to encourage conservation serves as yet another burden to the poor and probably will not change the behavior of the rich, whose driving habits are the most in need of reform. Counterbalancing decrease in other taxes is an indirect way to compensate the poor and may not benefit...
A gas rationing program would stem inflation both directly, by controlling oil price increases, and indirectly, by reducing the nation's dependence on expensive foreign oil. Instead of leaving conservation to the vagaries of the so-called free market, rationing could immediately reduce oil imports, opening up alternatives in foreign...
Current energy projects and household conservation tips are part of an energy conservation conference scheduled this Saturday in Somerville.