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...House of Commons. Pounding a dispatch box with his heavy hands, Bevin said: "The reply of the Soviet Government is awaited . . . [but] I shall not be a party to holding up the economic recovery of Europe by the finesse of procedure." The immediate problems of Europe were "food, coal, transport, houses, opportunities for a decent life...
...Coal was the central issue at Paris...
...coal meant the Ruhr and Germany...
...renewed pressure for Watt's resignation. The occasion was a breakfast meeting of some 200 U.S. Chamber of Commerce lobbyists in Washington, D.C. Watt was talking about a five-member commission that he had appointed at congressional behest to review Interior's much debated program of coal leasing on public lands, which has been called a multimillion-dollar giveaway at taxpayers' expense. Watt may have meant to extol his choice of commissioners, but what came out was something else. The panel, he said, had "every kind of mix you can have. I have a black, I have...
Even so, the U.S. continues to draw on nonrenewable fuels (petroleum, gas and coal) for 90% of its energy needs, not much below the 94% of 1973. The price and supply of oil worldwide remain very delicately balanced. Despite a frenzy of oilfield drilling set loose by oil decontrol, domestic production has actually slipped to 8.65 million bbl. daily, compared with 9.2 million in 1973. Now 30% more coal is being burned, but production of domestic natural gas declined by 18% in the decade. After six years, Washington's planned strategic petroleum reserve of 750 million bbl., which equals...