Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard College, says that, at this time, energy is the largest single investment Harvard holds, and that, for many reasons, the University will not "run away from these companies just because of opposition to nuclear energy." Siguler adds that nuclear energy is just a small portion of most major oil companies activities...
This year, the poor will need much more extensive subsidies than those now planned by the government. The price of home heating oil has doubled in a single year due to the lifting of price controls and the OPEC price hikes--the government's response has been shockingly inadequate. President Carter and Congress are leaving this year's relief effort to the Community Services Administration (CSA). But the $1.2 billion Congress is appropriating for the CSA's Emergency Crisis Assistance program will only provide each family below the poverty line with $400 of aid for the winter, enough...
...government's failure to respond quickly to the home heating oil crisis dramatically points up the dangers of a piecemeal approach to the broader energy crisis. In addition to a comprehensive plan to ease the crisis on the supply side of the energy equation, immediate attention must be paid to easing American demand for oil...
...plan to cope with the home heating oil crisis should do more than provide woefully insufficient stop-gap measures to help poor people pay their utility bills. It should also be part of a national effort to encourage all Americans, not just the poor to conserve energy. Such a multi-faceted program would include such as measures as the following. The Department of Energy estimates that any homeowner can cut his energy consumption by 25 to 40 per cent with an investment of $60, spent on water flow restrictors for faucets and showers, insulation for water heaters, caulking for doors...
...learn in three hours how to slash their energy costs. Ultimately, the projects organizers hope community volunteers will knock on every door in town and weatherproof thousands of homes. Such measures are unglamorous, but essential to a nation that hopes to be free of its dependence on foreign oil. Before the next blizzard, citizens and government at all levels must develop these and all other alternatives available to ward off the long cold winter...