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Whether through direct rationing by the government or indirect conservation in the marketplace, our next president must be prepared to remove the fetters oil imports place on our domestic and foreign policies. Through conservation, he can do so with less loss of life, less paranoia, and less danger of nuclear holocaust than through a self-destructive call to the Cold War colors...
Keeping oil prices unrealistically low is an unsatisfactory way to aid the poor. The rich use more energy in absolute terms than the poor, and, in relative terms, they consume almost as much when one counts indirect uses of energy, such as airplane travel. It is better to pinpoint aid directly to the poor. In fact, unrealistically low energy prices hurt all consumer because, over the long run, they cause the price of energy to be even higher than it would otherwise be. As an explicit example, the price controls on oil since the 1973 "OPEC Revolution...
...grain embargo is largely a "symbolic gesture," because the Soviets will have a sufficient supply of grain from their own stockpiles and from indirect purchases from third parties, May said...
...conflict has dramatically heightened since the Soviet actions." U.S. officials hesitate to speculate about the effect on Iran, though there is some hope that the Soviets' intervention will lessen the Ayatullah Khomeini's strident anti-Americanism. Saudi Arabia and Iraq, meanwhile, both see the coup as an indirect threat to themselves...
Despite such practical questions, Winooski's dome is stirring widespread interest. Tigan has been besieged with requests for radio and television interviews. He has also had an indirect boost from Buckminster Fuller, father of the geodesic dome. Says Shoji Sadao, Fuller's partner in the New York architectural firm of Fuller & Sadao: "Maybe we're getting out of the realm where this is just a pipe dream or visionary, and slowly getting into the realm of the practical." Maybe...