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People throughout the nation's Northern states are already gloomily pondering similar tradeoffs. Just about now, the owners of the 16 million houses, apartments and mobile homes-more than one-fifth of the U.S.'s housing-that use oil heat are getting their first big fuel deliveries. They are discovering with a dismaying jolt that the great '79 fuel crunch has moved from the gas station to the furnace room. Since January the average price of heating oil has jumped from less than 56? per gal. to more than 80?, an increase well in excess...
This is a burdensome new "tax" that will worsen the already deepening recession by reducing the amount of cash Americans have for spending on all sorts of nonessentials, ranging from new cars and skiing holidays to Christmas presents and charitable contributions. A typical fuel bill for an oil-heated home, about $650 last year, is expected to climb to between $ 1,060 and $ 1,200 this year. In 1978 the average American worker had to labor for 19 hr. every month of the heating season to pay his fuel-oil bill; this winter he will have to work a walloping...
Congress so far has done nothing to ease this new burden by approving either Jimmy Carter's request for $400 million for special low-income assistance in paying fuel bills or his proposed windfall-profits tax, which budgets some $1.2 billion in additional help. As a result, states are moving on their own. Massachusetts, Maine and Rhode Island are all looking into setting aside funds to provide heating money to the needy. In Virginia, Winchester Memorial Hospital's emergency-room staff is studying the treatment for hypothermia, caused when severe cold, combined with poor nutrition, makes body temperature...
...strength is his ability to penetrate to the core of an issue through barriers of scientific and judicial jargon. He points out that concentration on the dilemma of waste disposal distracts the public's attention from the equally insoluble and more immediate problem of radiation leakage throughout the nuclear fuel cycle, from mine to mill to reactor. He assails an emphasis on energy conservation through onerous consumer restraint. He says far larger gains are possible from introduction of energy-efficient design to construction and industry. And he prints the straightforward formula linking rems and death that was missing from...
When too many of these fuel rods pile up, though, they are moved to racks in a deep swimming pool for storage until MIT ships them to Barnwell, S.C., every year or so. The rods must be kept a certain distance apart to avoid a critical mass, which could set off a nuclear reaction. Reactor officials face a new problem since dump sites like Barnwell are increasingly hard to find...