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The explanations did not clarify matters very much. The nation's trade balance is indeed appallingly bad, with imports exceeding exports by some $16.4 billion since January, a nearly 50% in crease from the same period of last year. Yet last week the Commerce Department released June's trade figures...
North America. In response to severe criticism of U.S. energy profligacy, Carter made two important promises-to raise oil prices in the U.S. to world levels by 1980 and to reduce U.S. oil imports from a projected level of 11.5 million bbl. a day to 9 million bbl. by 1985...
During the fuel shortage four years ago, the federal energy boss, John Sawhill, tried to persuade men to take off their neckties: it would cool them down a degree or two and save on power for air conditioners. The Sawhill movement, intelligent for reasons besides conservation, vanished faster than a...
The Administration has misjudged congressional sentiments on tax matters of all sorts. Example: Carter's plan to place a heavy excise tax on domestic crude oil was laudably designed to encourage energy conservation, but the Senate has balked at the size ($12 billion a year by 1981) of the...
A worse problem is finding qualified people to fill DOE posts at the high level of Assistant Secretary. Now three such positions remain vacant, and few people seem willing to undergo the months of congressional scrutiny and cross-examination that have become standard for anybody willing to take a job...