Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...general, Carter would let domestic oil prices rise to world levels, increase prices of newly discovered natural gas by 20% (to approach oil prices), slap a 5¢-per-gal. tax on gasoline each year if conservation goals were not met, and use tax penalties on "gas guzzler" cars and rebates on small cars to encourage purchasers to select energy-efficient autos. To many liberals, this was not going far enough. "Large Chevy owners will now have to switch to small Chevies. I don't consider this a sacrifice," said Tom Quinn, special assistant on environmental protection to California Governor Jerry...
Carter's dilemma was that any comprehensive approach to energy consumption and production had to contain specific proposals repugnant to many groups. On energy, indeed, all Americans belong to one or more special or sectional interests, depending upon their personal transportation, heating, and vocational or leisure habits. Carter's program faced the danger of being sliced to death even by those in sympathy with its broad goals. It would have been politically hard, if not impossible, for Carter to demand more severe sacrifices by everybody when Congress might not even pass a package requiring small sacrifices. The proposals, after...
Surveying the nation, TIME correspondents found that those 1973 gasoline lines forced by the Arab boycott, and the plant and school closings caused by natural-gas shortages last winter, had not receded as far in public memory as many skeptics had thought. The support for Carter's crisis-mood approach cut broadly across partisan and regional lines. A surprisingly prevalent refrain was: "I'm all for it, but most other people won't go for it, and Congress will kill...
...auto industry looms large, and in the South, where cold is rarely a concern and tourism means money. Yet even in fuel-rich Texas, presumably set in its freewheeling ways, local Pollster John Staples found after Carter's presentation that more people approved his energy approach than opposed it. Nearly half said they would buy a smaller car if the price of gasoline were to rise from its present...
...State Reps. John E. Murphy Jr. and Francis W. Hatch Jr. '46. While similar versions of the bill have been submitted to the legislature in the past, Hatch readily acknowledges the debt that his co-sponsor and he owe to the pioneering Oregon law. "We swiped the traffic ticket approach," Hatsh says, adding "it really doesn't hurt to plagiarize. If another state has an intelligent approach to the problem, you have all the preliminary work done. If you have a roughly similar bill, the experience of that state is directly applicable...