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...vigorous the exploration--will send shock waves through an economy even more deeply mired in crude. His dismissal of conservation as secondary shows that Reagan has little prescience, little desire even to consider the long-term. Increased emphasis on coal--also a finite resource, and the cause of acid rain to boot--and on nuclear energy (which has proved remarkably cost-inefficient, apocalyptic scenarios aside) show an unwillingness or inability to get a grip on the future destiny Reagan begs us to "recapture...
...missing it. Evidence for his sense of mor al superiority is not provided. He rants at unconscionable length, a voice crying out not in the wilderness but on the golf course or in his Mercedes. The effect of his diatribes is peculiar, as if Swift had put his most acid criticisms of society in the mouth of a Yahoo...
...anger, the former editor of the Saturday Review recounted his battle against a disease of the spinal tissue that physicians had pronounced irreversible. Cousins ignored them. If stress and other negative emotions could trigger illness, he reasoned, positive emotions might restore health. The patient treated himself medically with ascorbic acid and emotionally with laughter-inducing joke books and reruns of Marx brothers movies. Not exactly what the doctor ordered, but it worked...
...number of electric cars could increase dramatically if Detroit's carmakers ever decide to start building them. Closest is General Motors, which has produced a prototype, the Electro Vette (a Chevette with lead-acid batteries). Last winter GM set up an electric car "project center," where it is working on an advanced zinc-nickel oxide battery with a range of 100 miles. GM EVs could be rolling off assembly lines as soon as the fall of 1983. Ford Motor Co. is working on a sodium-sulfur battery scheduled for lab tests...
...entrepreneurs are being attracted to the EV market. Sir Jon Samuel, a transplanted Briton, has set up Electric Auto Corp. in Troy, Mich., to produce the Silver Volt, scheduled for production next year at a cost to buyers of $16,000 each. The car runs on fast-charge, lead-acid batteries, but has a small rotary gasoline engine to boost power for passing and to rescue drivers from battery failure. Jet Industries of Austin, Texas, takes Ford, Chrysler and Fuji cars and trucks from the factory, installs lead-acid batteries and resells the vehicles to fleet owners...