Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fiery speech did about as much good as halftime pep talks usually do; despite free Green Stamps, and cut-price kits allowing customers to convert their cars to burn propane gas, Worthington's Dodge Boys sold only ten cars that day v. forty on a normal Saturday...
...energy prices skyrocket, some companies are going further and making capital outlays-some minor, some potentially sizable-to save more fuel. Some plants began investing even before the fuel shortage. Four years ago an RCA Corp. cabinetmaking plant in Monticello, Ind., converted its heating systems to burn 30 to 40 tons of its own waste wood daily. Dow Chemical Corp. has cut steam consumption in half at one of its plants, partly by installing a more efficient heat-transfer process. The investment of $44,000 was offset within a year through lower energy bills. Alcoa has developed a new smelting...
...SETS: A solid-state, black-and-white model will burn $2.75 of power a year, but a comparable color set will consume $10.08 worth. A couple that play Monopoly instead of watching color TV for one hour every night would save $1.67 a year...
NIXON's administration has knocked down measures to protect the environment across the board, from railroading the Alaska pipeline bill through Congress and repealing clean-air standards for vehicle emissions to allowing power plants to burn coal in densely populated areas. He has failed to constrain profiteering by oil companies, who have directly benefitted from the shortage with profits up nearly 100 per cent over a year...
...SOME senses, Nixon is right. Yes, America is by far the largest consumer of energy in the world. With only one-sixteenth of the planet's population, we burn up nearly three-quarters of its total energy. We live amid constant waste and abuse of everything natural, from hills ravaged by stripmining to the meat loaf that every child is scolded for leaving on his plate...