Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...keeping the energy growth rate down to 2% a year to conserve resources, a proposal he made in June 1975. He wants to save the country's land from the ravages of strip mining and unrestrained exploitation of its resources by carefully developing coal and publicly owned fossil fuel. He proposes breaking up oil companies both vertically and horizontally...
...years. Says John Paul, a vice president of AMAX: "Coal mines are not water spigots. You don't just open a tap and turn them on." To justify the expense, coal men need a guaranteed market-and for that potential buyers have to have some assurance that the fuel can be burned in compliance with clean-air laws...
...stack. Trouble is, the scrubbers are expensive-the Tennessee Valley Authority is spending $50 million installing them on one power plant-and the industry insists that they are unreliable. One possible reason for the utilities' attitude toward scrubbers: the power companies now can automatically pass along hikes in fuel costs to customers-but getting electric rates raised to reflect the cost of antipollution equipment takes much longer...
...much can be made of the project. It is only the first of a number of technological quests for new uses for the nation's most abundant fuel. Eventually, one of them will surely pay off. When that will happen, no one now can guess. At that point, however, coal will clinch its title among fuels as the once and future king...
...outside the city. Says Dr. Murphy: "I've always wanted a small house that was quite large." Other buyers agree that the minihouse's minilot is actually an advantage: they need to spend less time working on the lawn. Another gain: small-homeowners can save substantially on fuel costs...