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One can appreciate the obstacles ahead for our new energy boss. The idea of energy conservation for many people is leaving the lights off at home and taking the dinosaur in the driveway out for a 70-m.p.h. spin on the freeway!
This week, on his 91st day in office, Jimmy Carter will unveil his controversial energy conservation program?the most comprehensive ever proposed by a President. The energy package reaches from automobiles to attics and from vacuum cleaners to wellheads in an effort to end America's profligate use of energy...
> The program should be tougher, with more mandatory controls and less use of tax hikes to force conservation. Robert Nathan, a Washington economic consultant and also a member of the TIME Board of Economists, believes cars that get less than 15 miles to a gallon of gasoline should be banned...
Another set of calculations would take effect in 1981, when many forecasters expect gasoline consumption, which now runs at roughly 294 million gallons a day, to start declining. Then the tax would be raised another nickel or maybe even a dime for every year in which gas usage failed to...
Whatever the merits or faults of his particular actions, Carter has: 1) presented the most comprehensive strategic arms limitation proposals the U.S. has ever offered the Soviet Union, 2) put the U.S. more forcefully on record than ever before as a champion of human rights around the world, and used...