Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effort has not been entirely encouraging. It is possible, explained Ferguson, to "retrofit" old steelmaking machinery with modern energy-conserving equipment, but the cost is "horrendous." Said he: "Every buck we spend on conversion for our fuel sources and for environmental control will not be available for new plants, new supplies or new jobs...
Commoner regards the conventional kind of conservation as a short-term measure "to see that there are no holes in the bucket carrying energy to industry and homes." For the longer term, he advocates a reorganization of the entire economy to make it both more fuel efficient and responsible: "I think we have to introduce the concept of social governance of the production process; we need to find some way for society to determine directly what to produce...
...exhorted his fellow executives to be even more conservation minded. "I am the only one here," he said, "who had the opportunity of viewing the world from 240,000 miles out in space, and I know how small it looks." As an industry at the mercy of both soaring fuel costs (kerosene, which cost 8? to 10? per gal. in the late 1960s, may rise to 70? in the mid-1980s) and scarce capital for new equipment, the airlines must conserve or face ruin. Under Borman's prodding, Eastern has increased its passengers 10.4% while reducing fuel consumption...
Americans are so used to limitless energy supplies that they can hardly imagine what life might be like when the fuel really starts to run out. So TIME asked Science Writer Isaac Asimov for his vision of an energy-poor society that might exist at the end of the 20th century. The following portrait, Asimov noted, "need not prove to be accurate. It is a picture of the worst, of waste continuing, of oil running out, of nothing in its place, of world population continuing to rise. But then, that could happen, couldn...
...winter-well, it is inconvenient to be cold, with most of what furnace fuel is allowed hoarded for the dawn; but sweaters are popular indoor wear and showers are not an everyday luxury. Lukewarm sponge baths will do, and if the air is not always very fragrant in the human vicinity, the automobile fumes are gone...