Word: conservationism
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Turning to details of the presidential package, Schlesinger said that it dealt with two time frames: the next ten years and beyond. For the next decade, he said, the U.S. will rely mainly on strict conservation and the two "bridging fuels," coal and conventionally produced nuclear energy. "We are going...
CASE FOR CONSERVATION. Simply because the U.S. uses so much energy, it can also save a lot. But conservation is often very expensive, especially when large plants must be converted to different fuels or "retrofitted" with more efficient equipment. There also are limits beyond which conservation would become a debilitating...
Reviewing his company's conservation attempts, J. Robert Ferguson Jr., executive vice president of U.S. Steel, conceded that Big Steel in the past had used then cheap energy in order to conserve scarce capital funds. "The result is that we've had to go back and re-examine...
Commoner regards the conventional kind of conservation as a short-term measure "to see that there are no holes in the bucket carrying energy to industry and homes." For the longer term, he advocates a reorganization of the entire economy to make it both more fuel efficient and responsible: "I...
Eastern Air Lines President and Chairman Frank Borman, who commanded the U.S.'s first mission around the moon, exhorted his fellow executives to be even more conservation minded. "I am the only one here," he said, "who had the opportunity of viewing the world from 240,000 miles out...