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...consume now" ethic that pervades our culture. In 1991 Germans enacted with little fanfare a 60 cent gas tax to help rebuild the East. In 1993 Americans found 4 cents on top of $1.20-per-gal. gas almost too much to bear, even while we bequeath our children dirtier air, the continued risk of war over oil and a trillion dollars in fresh debt every four years. Now Dole's trying to get that nickel back for us. He ought to know better...
...global reserves. Now it is rapidly becoming a favorite fuel of electric utilities. More than 30% cheaper than oil, it burns efficiently, and it produces fewer pollutants and a third less carbon dioxide than oil. World production has risen 30% since the mid-1980s. Because of its advantages over dirtier hydrocarbons, natural gas may be a bridge between oil and coal and the solar...
...feels persecuted by Democratic Congressmen who want to re- establish broadcasting's Fairness Doctrine in order to pressure TV and radio stations to cancel his shows. And the FCC is going after Stern vigorously, during the past year fining Stern's employer $1.1 million for using words no dirtier than "rump" and "wiener" and "love lava...
...history, while it has its charms, can also create problems for construction efforts. "Harvard projects are dirtier and nastier than usual ones. They're not like new construction," Power says...
...naysayers have had a key influence on policy: they weakened the original Clean Air and Clean Water acts, and Reagan officials James Watt and Anne Burford nearly destroyed the Environmental Protection Agency. But a worsening environment has put the naysayers on the defensive as they struggle to explain ever dirtier air, moribund forests and lakes, oil spills, desertification and the ozone holes over the poles...