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...point out that Volkswagen, which is the most firmly established foreign automaker in the U.S., does not need Chrysler's dealer network or antiquated plants. Most of all, VW does not need Chrysler's huge unsold inventory of big autos that could become the albatrosses of the gasless summer...
...Arab embargo on oil sales to the U.S. had been coming so long that when it was finally announced last week most of the emotional impact had been spent. Not so the economic impact. Within a day of the official announcement, President Nixon proclaimed the end of gasless Sundays in the U.S. General Motors canceled layoffs of 27,000 workers that had been scheduled to begin this week, in the hope that greater availability of gasoline would halt the deep slump in car sales. Gulf Oil slashed prices of jet fuel, kerosene and heating oils between...
...Gasless folks had been expected to stay home in front of the TV, but over vacation and in the past week more people were going to movies than at any time in years. The Exorcist had all the news-show publicity, but is hasn't been seen by many more people than the popular Papillon and Serpico. These three are making the money-men of the film industry to wild. And they were only a small part of the holiday film explosion...
...rumors of tankers idling at sea to await higher prices before unloading, of refineries bulging with reserve stocks, of price-gouging from dock to gas pump. Forgetting how much their lives have already changed-who would have dared predict a year ago that 68° thermostat settings and gasless Sundays would so quickly become routine?-many Americans are asking not how the nation has managed to avoid the worst but whether there really is any energy shortage worth worrying about. Growing numbers are voicing suspicion that the whole emergency has been a hoax engineered by the oil companies to squeeze...
...Placed primary reliance on voluntary conservation measures-gasless Sundays, slower driving, lowered thermostats. Simon seems to urge a new measure every week. Now he is asking gas stations to limit each sale to ten gallons. The rule is basically unenforceable, but Simon hopes through publicity to nag station owners into complying...