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...look like a bargain. To cut costs, they plan to close off the 1,100-seat main sanctuary during the cold months and hold services in the church chapel and chapel hall, which together can accommodate only 500 worshipers. Explains one priest: "It is simply a question of 45 gal. an hour to heat the big church against 6 gal. for the chapel...
...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 of 40%. The country's total heating-oil bill, about $10 billion last year, will rise by $4.3 billion...
...even whole floors for the duration. In Agawam, Mass., Ernest Bleeck, 73, a retired sales manager, and his wife Mary, 66, spent $2,000 to build a greenhouse on the sunny kitchen side of their two-story frame house. In addition, they have placed several water-filled, 55-gal. barrels among their geraniums and lettuce plants where the sun will warm the water; then the warmth can flow into the house through the kitchen windows. The Bleecks hope to reduce the 1,500 gal. of oil that they usually burn every year by as much as 20%. Says Mary Bleeck...
...last week, their drab fatigues covered by yellow plastic suits, gloves and shoe covers. Under the direction of officials from the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Department of Energy and the state's own atomic energy commission, the Guardsmen sealed some $500,000 worth of tritium into 55-gal. drums. To the infiltrators the plant appeared "sloppier and worse than anticipated," Babbitt said. Company officials retorted that the hubbub was "like a Nazi camp in there." They called Babbitt's action "absolutely crazy" and accused him of having chosen "to throw law to the wind...
...cheap as or cheaper" than any current production model to massproduce. Mann is young and tousle-headed. But with poise beyond his years he points out that if society were to switch from petroleum-based fuels to hydrogen, fuel would cost the consumer only about 180 a gal. in gasoline equivalent. "But it'll take ten years before people realize there are oceans of water out there full of hydrogen...