Word: oils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mostly true what you say about Maui [March 26], but there are some flaws in Paradise: the tourists are so thick on West Maui that they get into each other's snapshots. Fortunately, the island is critically dependent upon the jets flying. If oil slows, the happy squeaks will be from the residents able finally to rust in peace...
Politics and Oil Prices The oil-exporting countries could put President Carter out of office if they want ed to [March 19]. All they would have to do is raise the price of oil to the point where our economy goes berserk, and he, or any President they did not like, would be voted out of office...
...past, America has aided almost any nation in need, including the OPEC countries. But now, when we are suffering an oil shortage, our friends backstab us by boosting prices and cutting supplies. I look forward to the day when alternative energy sources replace fossil fuels and Americans can tell the OPEC and other oil-producing countries just where they can put their petroleum...
...accident could hardly have occurred at a worse time. The U.S. now imports almost half of the oil it consumes, and the OPEC nations continued last week to sting the industrialized world with price increases, thus adding to the nation's already soaring inflation rate. The U.S. had been counting on nuclear energy to achieve a greater degree of energy independence, but the Three Mile Island accident helped demonstrate that there is no easy path to self-sufficiency. The use of each kind of energy has its own particular problems or risks. Says David Rosenbaum, a consultant...
Washington was alive with investigations and promises of investigations to find out what went so terribly wrong at the Metropolitan Edison Co. plant. In his major energy address Thursday night, Jimmy Carter preceded his call for phased decontrol of oil prices and a windfall tax on petroleum companies (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS) with the announcement that he would appoint an independent commission to look into the accident and make recommendations for improving the safety of all nuclear plants. Said the President: "You deserve a full accounting, and you will...