Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...letting higher taxes rather than higher prices discourage energy consumption? The obvious answer: to prevent oil companies from making windfall profits. In his press conference, he noted that the oil companies, under his plan, will have to report their profits in each geographical area and for each type of fuel they produce. That, he said, might well disclose anticompetitive practices that the Government could then use to prosecute the oil companies under the antitrust laws, and perhaps avoid any necessity of breaking up the companies or making them get out of non-oil energy fields, such as coal or nuclear...
...credits. A homeowner who puts in $2,200 worth of insulation theoretically can pick up a $410 tax credit free. If Carter's program passes, the homeowner can arrange financing through his utility, which will add repayments to his monthly gas or oil bill, but his savings on fuel will cancel out the loan payments -or so says the Government. By federal calculation, the average person's share of money raised by a proposed tax on crude oil and returned to consumers through income tax credits will...
Hinsdale's residents waste as much energy at home as on the road. The massive Victorian houses on the south side of the community predate insulation. Last winter the owners got impressive fuel bills-one family paid nearly $1,000 for oil in January. But as Schmeltzer points out, "If the people took their bills seriously, the town would be swarming with insulation installers right...
...limits on the two autobahns that flank the suburb, and most commuters drive the twelve miles to Cologne instead of taking the train, which comes only hourly. But many of the cars in Rösrath are gas-sipping compacts or minis, an understandable situation with the price of fuel at $1.40 a gallon. The few standard-size American cars stand out like whales in a school of porpoises...
...result, the residents of Rösrath can keep their houses at a toasty 71°-or higher-and not have to pay exorbitant heating bills. The Carlses, for example, annually spend around $400 on fuel oil-a figure that would be the envy of Hinsdale homeowners. The Carlses have also helped to reduce costs by taking the kind of initiative that the Carter Administration would applaud: forming a cooperative with ten other families to buy oil, with the result that they get a rate of 400 per gal., v. the standard price of 600. (Hinsdale's rate...