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Increasing opposition by conservationists and state government officials to heedless strip-mining and offshore oil drilling has also sharply limited the future exploitation of U.S. fuel reserves. Sums up S. David Freeman, director of a Ford Foundation study of energy: "Environmental goals and energy demands are on a collision course...
Indeed, because all the energy companies would pass along higher costs to the consumer, critics have charged that the energy crisis could conceivably serve, in Freeman's words, "as a massive exercise in picking the pocket of the American consumer to the tune of billions of dollars a year." No one is suggesting a conspiracy to raise prices; the literally hundreds of electric utilities, gas, coal and oil companies that all seek competitive advantage over one another could not effectively coordinate such a campaign. But the critics fear that consumers might be faced with excessive price boosts unless...
With a reduction from the present annual growth rate of 4.2% to about 2.2% by 1985, says the Ford Foundation's Freeman, "the savings would be small at first, but would grow steadily. And they would make the difference between a crisis and managing the problem...
...reassured. The message, he said, "lacks the sense of urgency and the sense of national commitment I believe are necessary to deal with the energy crisis." The underlying premise "that we will have continued and uninterrupted access to foreign sources of supply," Jackson feels is unjustified. S. David Freeman, director of a Ford Foundation study of energy problems, praised the end of the import quotas but found other flaws in the message: the President did not sufficiently explore foreign policy implications the possibility of oil stockpiling or even the current shortage of gasoline. Says Freeman: "There's not much...
...athletes for an A.A.U. meet one week, the A.A.U. gets revenge the next by neglecting to submit for certification a world record set by an N.C.A.A. runner. Though the authorities generally wink at under-the-table gratuities of various kinds, the N.C.A.A. once suspended Oregon State's Gary Freeman from the varsity basketball team for violating a rule about offseason play. Freeman's heinous crime: on a trip home to Boise, Idaho, he returned to his high school to play in a seniors v. alumni game in which no score was kept and the admission...