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...Portillo has not gone abegging to the Oval Office, although he would like adjustments in a trade relationship that heavily favors the U.S. In fact, he preceded his visit with a generous Mexican offer to the U.S. PEMEX, the national oil company, has begun shipping 2.4 billion cu. ft. of natural gas to the fuel-starved U.S. through pipeline connections at Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa and Matamoros; the gas will have a price tag of more than $5 million. And with Florida's vegetable crops devastated by the winter weather, Mexico is shipping tomatoes in quantity to the U.S. from...
...energy problem will take longer to solve. The nation is at present burning twice as much natural gas as it is finding. Reserves have dwindled from 293 trillion cu. ft. in 1967 to 228 trillion in 1975. The U.S. still has ample gas, but it now has to be drilled at greater depth at higher cost. There will be no incentive to develop these supplies, the industry argues, until price controls are lifted from gas that is piped interstate; the price is presently held at $1.44 per 1,000 cu. ft. Carter's gas bill takes a small step...
...Depending upon the number of residents in a home, each individual will be limited to between 32 and 49 gallons a day. That is roughly enough water to flush a toilet seven times or take a five-minute shower. The cost, moreover, will nearly triple, from 46? per 100 cu. ft. (748 gal.) to $1.22. Anyone who exceeds the ration will be billed a punishing $10 to $50 per cu. ft. for the excess...
...prices per 1,000 cu. ft.: $1.42 for gas from wells found or tapped after 1974; $1.01 for gas from wells opened be tween 1973 and 1974; and 290 to 520 for all "older...
...between 50% and 75% of Evans' home heating requirements. Alden and Margaret Krider of Manhattan, Kans., have fashioned their own solar collectors from discarded aluminum printing plates, storing solar heat in discarded paint cans filled with water. They are delighted with the results. Says Krider: "Every 1,000 cu. ft. of gas I don't burn now is 1,000 cu. ft. that I or someone else can have in the future...