Word: conservationism
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At long last, some of the nation's energy problems showed some improvement-but others were getting worse. Although lines of motorists at service stations in parts of the U.S. provided highly visible evidence of a deepening shortage of gasoline last week, the more serious scarcity of home-heating...
The President also asked Congress to forget the Emergency Energy Act that got bogged down before the Christmas recess because of disagreement over taxing oil companies' "excess profits." Instead, Nixon wants Congress to whip through a "basic bill" that would make the Administration's fuel-allocation and conservation...
Show and Tell. To help dispel public doubts about the shortage, oil companies have begun releasing previously secret figures on their inventories of crude oil and refined products. On Saturday, Nixon promised to submit legislation requiring the oil firms to "provide a full accounting" of their inventories, reserves, production and...
1) Voluntary conservation has become far more effective than might have been anticipated in a supposedly self-indulgent nation. A kind of energy chic has taken hold; people really are lowering thermostats, switching off lights and driving more slowly. For the four weeks ending Dec. 28, gasoline demand dropped 8.7...
At home, on a seven-acre estate in McLean, Va., Simon seeks to set an example of energy conservation. Wife Carol keeps the thermostat down to 64°, and gathers the family in the library (four daughters are living at home, another daughter and a son are away at school...