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As a result, the 1975 Energy Policy and Conservation Act empowered federal regulatory agencies to set targets for higher efficiency from home appliances. On July 15 the FEA announced voluntary efficiency goals for the industry: by 1980, new central air conditioners should be 25% more efficient than present models, while...
The Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers has been rating U.S.-made air conditioners, using the Energy Efficiency Ratio (EER), since 1974. On a scale advancing from a poor five to an excellent eleven, the EER evaluates the air conditioner's ability to produce the largest amount of cooling with...
Testy Relations. Luce started off briskly enough. He revamped virtually the entire 55-member top-management team at Con Ed, bringing in many new executives from the outside. He ordered a variety of improvements to reduce chances of future system-wide blackouts, and encouraged natural-gas conservation. To better the...
One of the items on the agenda for Pérez's talks was oil. Venezuela has cut its shipments to the U.S. by about one-third in a conservation program. The country's reserves are due to run out by the end of the century. Today Venezuela...
Though many Americans are staying close to home, more of them than ever before will be traveling. Some 37 million families will be on U.S. roads this summer, up 4% over last year. Jimmy Carter's warnings about fuel conservation have, if anything, merely persuaded Americans that they had better...