Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...going to Batavia Downs to "maybe someday hit it big." Batavia isn't known for much else--it certainly isn't a very likely setting for a novel with the high aspirations of John Gardner's The Sunlight Dialogues. But poor Batavia is not as much to blame as John Gardner...
...David Freeman, former energy adviser to President Nixon and now head of a Ford Foundation study on energy, puts the blame squarely on the White House. "This winter's so-called 'energy crisis' was manufactured right here in Washington," Freeman says. In his eyes, the real problem stems from the Administration's refusal to remove foreign-oil quotas, which were designed to protect domestic producers in 1959. Though the President's own Cabinet task force recommended lifting the quotas in 1970, Nixon did not act. The oil industry and oil-producing states like Texas...
...would introduce a bill to require the Government to devise national fuel-rationing plans that would go into effect "in critical periods of shortage." The President's own answer will come in his special "Energy Message" to Congress later this winter. None of the solutions are likely to blame environmentalism as a cause of the fuel shortage. What the quest for scapegoats has done is to show how extraordinarily complex the business of meeting the nation's energy needs really...
...resentment among some Representatives and Senators who are determined to see Congress retain its power over the national purse strings. Several bills that aim at forcing Nixon to spend the REAP money have been introduced. Says one of the sponsors, Iowa Republican Congressman William Scherle: "I don't blame the President for this. I blame those Katzenjammer Kids at the White House. They don't know the difference between an ear of corn and a bale of hay." Meanwhile Wyoming Democrat Gale McGee, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, says that he will refuse to hold...
...truth is that the government is responsible for inflation. We are not to blame for offering our goods or labor services at a higher price, especially if the inflation is expected to continue or worsen. It is the same government that grants privileges to oil companies forcing the needless fuel shortages in this area. Again, it is government-granted privilege to large interests that keeps the prices of medical care, most food, union labor, postal service, transportation, etc., and inf., higher than they would otherwise be in a competitive situation. These interests and the state thrive on theft and find...