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...products for industry. Still, gasoline consumption will not have to be reduced 30%, as the Administration once feared. Supplies to gas stations instead will be cut 20% below expected demand. Simon continues to predict that voluntary conservation measures will lower consumption sufficiently. In fact, though, such measures as gasless Sundays and lower speed limits so far have reduced gasoline use only 7.2%. Simon himself warns that the appearance of "three-or four-hour lines" at gas pumps could force actual rationing, and such lines indeed formed in some areas over the Christmas holidays...
...case, the Administration continues to view rationing as a last resort. Before ordering it, Simon is likely to try several other measures: perhaps gasless Saturdays, perhaps a complicated system of colored windshield stickers designed to keep every car off the road one day a week. Red, for example, might mean no driving Monday...
What they are seeing is a two-ton, eight-cylinder behemoth built for an age when 50-m.p.h. speed limits, gasless Sundays and talk of rationing would have seemed like blasphemies. The result is that even more motorists are turning to smaller vehicles that can get them through the oil squeeze?at the likely cost of wrenching readjustments in the auto industry, the U.S. economy and the way that citizens move, live and think...
...professional drivers are already getting a taste of gas-pump privation. On the first gasless Sunday, an estimated 90% of the nation's filling-station operators obeyed President Nixon's call to shut down between 9 p.m. Saturday and midnight Sunday. Whether the closings actually saved much-or any-fuel is questionable. Some stations did double their normal business on Saturday, then ran dry in the early-Monday rush. "It's just like the run on nylons in World War II," said a Boston attendant. Highways were nearly emptied in some areas; toll takers on Chicago expressways...
...trade have been hurt. The howls grew so loud that the government-sensitive to shopkeepers, who make up a large proportion of the population-has partially relaxed the ban. Originally forbidden until 3 a.m. Monday, driving is now permitted after 8 Sunday evening. The Netherlands will drop gasless Sundays altogether January 7, when it becomes the first European country to ration...