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...Suzanne Keller, professor of sociology at Princeton, conservation can only succeed if Americans realize that the energy crisis is not "put on, contrived or false." They have drawn no such conclusion yet, she said, even though the oil embargo touched off a series of far-reaching social effects. Americans, suddenly deprived of gasoline, were also short of the "security blanket" provided by the auto and all the "freedom, status and glamour" that it represents. During the embargo, Keller said, police records show that there were more "violent family encounters as people spent more time involuntarily at home...
Significantly, the embargo also "caused considerable frustration and dismay, almost akin to a feeling of betrayal." Without abundant energy, the American way of life seemed lost. The answer, Keller continued, is "to develop a new philosophy of life-nothing short of that-as we are forced to shift our priorities from accumulation to preservation." Facing up to energy shortages, she hoped, "may encourage a sense of togetherness and community that everyone seems to be seeking...
SCAPEGOATS. One result of the embargo has been a search for villains. The Federal Government has been accused of bureaucratic bungling, and environmentalists of obstructionism. But by far the most blame has been heaped on the oil companies, largely because of their record profits. Urbanologist Irving Kristol of New York University noted one reason: the corporation "is just about the only institution in American society without a constituency. Most institutions have someone who will rally around them when they get into trouble. Corporations have not." Even most of the companies' stockholders are uninterested, Kristol said. "They are speculators. They...
Thus the boosts in posted prices for crude oil-from $3.01 per bbl. last October to $11.65 now-were long overdue. Moreover, Amuzegar said, the producing nations want to cooperate in world development, the oil embargo notwithstanding, because "we are all in the same boat...
...First comes indolent Josephine cuckolding her warrior-husband while he is off subjugating the Mamelukes in Egypt. Then his Empress-the mother of his only acknowledged son-homesick Marie-Louise, who stuffs herself with Austrian chocolate and drinks coffee in clear violation of the Emperor's trade-war embargo. Napoleon's mother, Madame Mere, casts a practical Corsican eye on ephemeral pomp and circumstance, while prudently stuffing gold in her socks. And of course Talleyrand appears, ceaselessly tacking for advantage and trimming his sails at the hint of rough weather...