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Mondale found the Germans and the French reluctant to modify their deals for the sale of nuclear reprocessing plants to Brazil and Pakistan respectively. But they told Mondale they were willing to tighten international safeguards to prevent the conversion of spent reactor fuel into atomic weapons-a high Carter priority. Mondale also got agreement for further high-level international negotiations to limit the export of nuclear facilities...
...fuel shortage led the Northern Indiana Public Service Co. to order 1,500 industrial users of natural gas to cut their consumption by 20%. Both Columbia Gas of Ohio and East Ohio Gas Co. limited 1,675 heavy users to only enough fuel to keep their machinery from freezing. Ford, General Motors and Chrysler laid off some 58,000 workers in Michigan and Ohio. In Cleveland alone, about 10,000 laborers were idle. The cutbacks forced the closing of schools in 245 downstate Illinois communities. In Milwaukee, which has had a record 21 days of subzero weather, water mains burst...
More industrialized and energy-dependent than other areas, the Middle Atlantic states from New York south worried about the potential impact of continued cold and dwindling fuel supplies. So far, so good-relatively speaking. Buried under record snowfalls, northern New York did close schools heated by gas. Residents of the Buffalo area were asked to set thermostats at a shivering 55°. Two General Motors plants near Buffalo and a Bethlehem Steel factory near Lackawanna closed their doors. But much-maligned Con Edison, which lights up most of the New York megalopolis, had its day in the cold. The giant...
This time, luck ran out at thousands of factories, small plants and even schools that depend on a vital energy source: natural gas. Pointing to rising consumption of the clean-burning fuel, as well as dwindling supplies, gas-industry experts had been forecasting severe shortages for several winters, only to have mild weather make it appear that they had been crying wolf. But this season, the early warnings had been sounded as far back as November-and suddenly they proved all too accurate. "The past four or five winters have been comparatively warm," said Carl Suchocki of the Natural...
Pipeline Network. It could hardly help having a serious impact. Natural gas is the nation's second most widely used fuel, after oil, accounting for 30% of total U.S. energy needs. Drawn from deep deposits in Texas, Louisiana and a dozen other states, the gas is distributed to customers across the nation through a vast underground pipeline network that is 649,000 miles long and is operated by 141 major transmission companies. The fuel they supply is the source of heat for half the nation's homes and provides 40% of the energy used by industry...