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...conclusions King draws from the statistics he has presented as a rationale for raising the age--that the number of drivers under 21 involved in fatal highway accidents since 1972 has skyrocketed nearly 100 per cent--are questionable at best and are likely too partisan to represent accurately the true incidence of teenage drunk drivers. State Sen. John Owen presented figures in a hearing last Tuesday that showed that drunk driving had increased more in the 21-25 age group than in the 18-21 bracket...
...increase came as no surprise, but its size--9.6 per cent, up to $8140--shocked many students...
...T.V.A. experiment also enables middle and low income consumers to buy expensive solar water heating equipment by giving them a loan at an interest rate of 3.37 per cent to be paid back over twenty years. Even without any publicity for the project, 900 people have volunteered to participate, and Freeman imagines a day when all the valley's residents will use solar energy to heat their water. There is a second project cranking up that will test solar space heating systems...
...T.V.A. is also trying a demonstration project with wood-burning stoves. Freeman explains that the forests replanted 40 years ago now cover 60 per cent of the valley. This wood has the potential to be an important and relatively inexpensive source of heat for residential users...
Though these programs only affect residential customers, who use 30 per cent of the energy produced by the T.V.A., they presage a turning from nonrenewable, polluting sources of energy. They are a spear in the cyclops...