Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leaders around the world-prominently including Jimmy Carter. The President-elect has declared that a new, more cohesive energy policy will be a top-priority goal of his Administration. Indeed, Carter plans to devote one of his earliest televised fireside chats to a plea to the nation to conserve fuel...
Final Crunch. The lull in the energy crisis has been the result of two developments for which governments can take no credit: a succession of mild winters and the global recession of 1974-75. Both held down fuel consumption and tended to obscure a frightening fact: in the long run, the world is going to run out of oil. Known reserves may well be nearing depletion before the end of the century, sending crude production on an irreversible decline-and before that point is reached, demand pressures will push petroleum prices to confiscatory levels, threatening economic chaos. So current consumption...
Long before that ultimate day of reckoning comes, however, the oil-burning nations face an immediate threat. The coming winter may be severe, boosting fuel usage and heating bills. And this week the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, the 13-nation supercartel that quintupled world oil prices between October 1973 and September 1975, is expected to push them up another notch, effective Jan. 1. Every percentage point of increase will translate into higher inflation, slower economic growth and fewer jobs around the industrialized world...
ERDA and some privately funded research groups are investigating ways to extract oil from shale, tap the energy from the sun and harness the earth's heat. None of these sources is expected to provide the ultimate solution. Combining solar with conventional energy could help cut some fuel use. One problem: methods of storing solar energy are not effective enough to be relied on as the sole source of electric or heating power in the cold winter climates of such areas as New England and the northern Middle West. Prices for getting shale oil or using wet-steam deposits...
...serves as a good example of NATO'S superior equipment: although the mammoth Soviet T-62 is heavier than its Western rivals-the U.S.'s M60, Britain's Chieftain and West Germany's Leopard-it is less accurate, slower, and sports a vulnerably exposed rear fuel tank. The West also leads in developing precision-guided munitions (the so-called smart weapons) like the infantry-or helicopter-fired TOW tank killer. Still, very few of these are presently deployed on the front line of defense. NATO officers need not worry as much as their Russian counterparts about...