Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that make up about three-quarters of America's fuel were created in finite supply millions of years ago. At the rate they are being burned, they will begin playing out sometime around the year 2000, give or take a decade or so. The power sources of the future-solar, thermonuclear fusion, geothermal and coal-derived fuels-remain just that: visions for the future, with no certainty that such sources will be available when present reserves of oil and gas go into steep decline. And the use of coal and nuclear-fission power is not expanding nearly rapidly enough...
...billion last year, draining from the country purchasing power badly needed to create jobs. Yet the Nixon and Ford administrations were unable to devise plans that Congress was willing to accept for stretching out supplies. Nixon's Project Independence, aimed at making the U.S. self-sufficient in fuel by 1980, was never more than an unrealistic and empty slogan...
...program despite these difficulties, Schlesinger has holed himself up in a bright, pleasant White House suite only a 30-second walk from the Oval Office. There he is surrounded by charts showing excessive U.S. use of energy (Americans burn approximately twice as much fuel per person as West Germans, who have roughly comparable living standards), reports and endless position papers from his staff. The first thing he did when he moved in was to recruit a dozen eager, freewheeling young people, who are unintimidated by their awesome job or their boss, whom they call simply Jim. Schlesinger hired them...
...higher billing to all customers. For added energy saving in homes, utilities will be required to install remote-control switches on central heating and air-conditioning units and water heaters. The heaters and air conditioners can then be turned off for 15 to 20 minutes each hour to conserve fuel while the water heaters can be switched off for two to four hours to ease the peak load...
...ROAD SCARE. A Mankato, Minn., waste-oil dealer discovered that, without his permission, a trucker had been transporting fuel in his tanks to Iowa, where it was to have been sprayed on the state's gravel roads to keep down the dust. Trouble was that some of the fuel, a solvent, was heavily contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), a class of highly toxic chemicals that have been implicated in birth defects and nervous disorders. Environmental officials were notified; they located the contaminated solvent in Cedar Falls and Fort Dodge, Iowa, before it had been used. Had the solvent been...