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...Schools all over the country have set their thermostats as low as 66° in classrooms and 60° in gyms, halls and dormitories at night. Many have sealed off unused spaces and consolidated activities. Such modest conservation steps are saving New York City's schools 500,000 gal. of fuel oil every month. Other simple steps achieve more savings: as many as 78 fluorescent tubes have been removed from some large halls at Georgetown University without dropping lighting levels below acceptable minimums. Windows and the tops of elevator shafts are being weather-stripped at Harvard...
...people two-to-one, there is virtually no alternative to the private auto, and any rationing scheme should take that dependence into account. Millions of Americans will gladly pay top dollar for gasoline, as long as they can still get it. Western Europe has proved that even $1-a-gal. gasoline need not curtail car sales so long as the cars are small and economical enough. The number of cars owned by each 1,000 Italians multiplied from 18 in 1955 to 188 in 1970. In the U.S., once the initial shock of the gasoline shortage is over and Detroit...
...domestic and overseas lines plan to cancel 950,000 of the 5,000,000 takeoffs originally scheduled for 1974 and reduce flights by 285 million miles. About 275 planes, more than 10% of the airlines' fleets, will be grounded; Continental Air Lines figures to save 19 million gal. of jet fuel a year just by replacing 747s with DC-10s on its Honolulu runs. Many of the cabin luxuries and ticketing options that passengers have taken for granted will disappear. First class may give way to all-economy seating, and tourist accommodations may become more crowded as cabins...
...miles in a ten-hour driving day; at 16? a mile, that translates to $24 less every working day for a hired driver and, at 40? a mile, $60 less each day for an owner-operator. » Fuel prices: Until three months ago, diesel fuel averaged around 27? per gal. Now it costs 45? to 51? and has gone as high as 80? at the pumps of at least one Ohio truck stop. Typically, a trucker grosses $300 hauling a load between Pittsburgh and Chicago and keeps $55 as profit. Rocketing fuel prices now slash that profit...
...many stations are limiting them to 50, 25 or even 10 gal. at a time. So the drivers must chase from truck stop to truck stop, wasting precious driving time, to keep their four-miles-to-the-gal-lon rigs running. The drivers want a generous allocation of fuel to the truck stops to keep them on the road...