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...what it has termed an “energy crisis,” the Bush administration has begun to finalize a reform strategy that relies on increasing energy supplies to meet increasing demand. President George W. Bush, a former oil industry executive, has generally favored obtaining greater fossil fuel supplies from previously untapped areas, and Vice President Dick Cheney, also a former oil executive, has said that the United States will need 1,300 new power plants by 2020—more than one a week—to satisfy increasing demand...
...long, Americans have relied on wasteful use of non-renewable resources to fuel our economy. It is time to focus our efforts on conserving energy and maximizing our use of renewable energy sources—if not to watch our own wallets, then out of regard for our children and grand-children...
...straining to move me forward. After a surprised moment in this strange equilibrium I let out a wheezy grunt and gently slumped forward. From this position my body somehow found one last drop of adrenaline in my already taxed gland and it squirted into my bloodstream. With this as fuel, I managed to stand up and continued my lurching progress up the hill, but this breakdown upgraded the crisis from "serious" to "red alert...
...Rudenstine was, in a sense, “chosen to fuel the engine,” according to Gomes...
...infinitely absorptive capacity and can tolerate any pollution. We used to think that about rivers. It isn't true, in either case. Industries that pollute rivers have been forced to change, to clean up. The people who worry about pollution from planes (noise pollution, trails of fuel waste raining down) are no longer Luddite crackpots...