Word: conservationism
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>A detailed plan for equitably allocating OPEC supplies among the consuming countries, combined with some sort of joint conservation target. Proposals for an outright buyers' cartel to control consumption, much as OPEC controls production, are thought to be too ambitious. A more realistic expectation is a simple extension of...
As the Administration has repeatedly emphasized, conservation is a necessary component of any energy program, and Americans are more prepared to support the effort than they are given credit for. A New York Times/CBS News poll last week showed, for instance, that the public would far prefer gasoline rationing to...
Conservation can ease the crisis temporarily, but it is not a long-term solution. If the nation is to grow economically over the next two decades and moderate the fast approaching oil-fueled recession, it must secure supplementary supplies of reasonably priced, politically unfettered energy. Given the OPEC stranglehold, that...
Not that Congress needs any such incentive. Having rejected Carter's conservation and stand-by gas rationing proposals, the legislators are now rebelling against his plan to phase out price controls on domestically produced crude oil beginning in June. Carter decided on decontrol in the hope that higher prices...
Amid the chaos, the prospects for further disruptions in Iran's exports of petroleum seem dangerously large. Should they occur, Congress would hurriedly have to dust off the mandatory conservation programs that legislators had rejected when it appeared that the U.S. could scrape by without them.