Word: demands
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...reason is that electric power demand is growing much more slowly than it had been in the 1960s and early 1970s. Another is that nuclear construction costs have risen to about $1,000 a kilowatt, from $100 in the 1960s. This compares with $700 for a coal-fired plant. The two main causes are general inflation and the long delays in getting a plant built because of legal challenges by opponents. Says Charles Cicchetti, chairman of the Wisconsin public service commission: "It's time to jump off the nuclear bandwagon." Nonetheless, the industry contends that nuclear plants...
...bravado was quickly underscored by a rash of surcharge announcements. Algeria and Libya both added $4-per-bbl. premiums to their much-in-demand low-sulfur oil, as did Nigeria, a nation that has made a practice of haphazardly squandering its petrodollars almost as blithely as Americans waste oil. Kuwait, Iran and Venezuela tacked on $1.20-per-bbl. surcharges. Mexico, though not an OPEC member, also got in on the gouging game; it added...
...Committee: "The so-called all-volunteer force system, under which all the military services now operate, is clearly the weakest link in the vital chain of our military security. We are simply not getting manpower in the numbers and with the quality that the military requirements of this Nation demand...
...that nuclear plants will solve the problem is just as naive, and perhaps disastrously so. If a comprehensive government program to encourage installment of solar heating devices--along the lines of the home insulation tax rebate--were to result in only a 5 per cent decrease in the overall demand for oil it would be well worth the effort since U.S. oil supplies are currently only 2.5 per cent below demand, according to government estimates. The benefits of such a program would seem to outweigh the costs...
Besides encouraging the use of present solar and wind technology to its fullest extent, some kind of mandatory fuel-gas-oil allocaion should substitute for price increases to hold down demand. The administration now approaches the idea of allocation-rationing very warily, insisting that it is only a last resort. This is roughly analogous to rationing water in a desert when there's only a few drops left in the canteen. The time for rationing is earlier on, before the supplies are gone. If an equitable, and not necessarily severe, program of rationing coupled with price controls were instituted...