Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...America's wasteful ways. But as TIME correspondents probed public reaction across the country to Carter's triple TV assault, only a few cynics were still insisting that the energy crisis was a nefarious conspiracy by Big Oil and Big Government to drive up the price of fuel and fleece the citizen. Across the political spectrum and through the many segments of U.S. society, Carter was being applauded for asking the nation to confront the painful truths about energy...
Beyond the rather modest sacrifices Carter asked of most individuals, his program offered some incentives for saving fuel. Both homeowners and businesses could receive tax credits for installing insulation, storm windows and weather stripping in their buildings. Homeowners also would be encouraged through tax credits to install solar equipment...
...raised environmental worries and brought new sympathy for conservation. There may be more resistance to sweeping energy saving in the Midwest, where farms grow on gas and the auto industry looms large, and in the South, where cold is rarely a concern and tourism means money. Yet even in fuel-rich Texas, presumably set in its freewheeling ways, local Pollster John Staples found after Carter's presentation that more people approved his energy approach than opposed it. Nearly half said they would buy a smaller car if the price of gasoline were to rise from its present...
...academia became his conduits for change. With the publication of The Rape Of Our Neighborhoods, perhaps America will start responding to Worthy's prose. If they do they might discover the truth in the words of Kenneth B. Clark: "The Bill Worthys of our society provide the moral fuel necessary to prevent the flickering conscience of our society from going...
...keep those expensive, energy-gobbling monstrosities. Some soldiers in uniform and with rifles are present in almost every still functioning nation, but only the United States and the Soviet Union can maintain a few tanks, planes and ships-which they dare not move for fear of biting into limited fuel reserves...