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...escape a real crisis next time around, the Nixon Administration must begin now to draft a coherent national energy policy. It must measure the nation's real energy needs for the foreseeable future and determine what combination of Government price-regulating programs, import controls and conservation measures will be required to fill those needs...
Crossed Wires. At present, U.S. energy policy is a mix of uncoordinated, sometimes conflicting and occasionally inept programs carried out by half a dozen highly independent agencies. By administering oil import quotas, the Interior Department, for example, helps to keep domestic oil prices high; the Federal Power Commission tries to protect consumers by keeping natural gas prices low. The unintended result has been to discourage exploration for gas, a relatively nonpolluting fuel, because it is only one-third as profitable as oil when it is pumped out of the ground...
Clearly, the U.S. has to follow a middle course, seeking to work out a better balance between domestic fuel production and foreign supplies than is provided by the present oil-import program, which has neither kept costs down nor provided any guarantee against shortages. Washington should let in some more oil from the rest of the world. It should do this either by liberalizing quotas or replacing them with a less restrictive tariff system, as a Nixon-appointed task force recommended-to no avail-a year ago. Such a move would have to be coupled with the building...
...most beleaguered males, it would seem that the U.S. has enough demonic spokesmen for Women's Lib without having to import them. But Germaine Greer, 32, who arrives this week to publicize her new book The Female Eunuch (McGraw-Hill; $6.95), has some outstanding credentials. A contributor to the European underground press and lecturer at the University of Warwick, she has a Cambridge Ph.D., lean good looks, an unquenchable stream of bright, wild talk, much of it unprintable, experience on the telly, and a new proposal for the oppressed...
...winning losers. Her eyes imply that the tear ducts were installed first, and her voice box quivers with a heart broken in transit. Perhaps she is every father's illusion of a vulnerable daughter. Count her a big funny plus in a small funny British comedy import called How the Other Half Loves...