Word: oils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bradshaw said former energy policies relied too heavily on foreign oil and the break-up of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. These programs immeasurably harmed U.S. economy, he added...
...Oil is too important a commodity to be left up to the oil companies," Bradshaw said, adding that he thinks government should totally regulate distribution of oil and guide research into other energy sources. The government should also provide loan guarantees to small energy companies to spur continued research, he said...
William H. Bossert, McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics and master of Lowell House, called the demonstration "ill-timed and quite inappropriate," adding that Bradshaw "is the only president of an oil company who is for a comprehensive energy plan and for mass transit...
When a herd of stampeding caribou reaches an oil pipeline in the Northwest Territories, the animals balk at the one-foot obstacle. Some run for miles parallel to the pipeline, others stands still, perplexed. Those who refuse to step over the pipeline are easy prey for the wolves; those not fortunate enough to be killed quickly, wither away until they are just carcasses. In the snow...
That would benefit the U.S. steel indus try and the economy of several ports. But environmentalists fear that disruption of the lakes' whiter ice cover would cause damage to fish and plant life. The energy crisis has made state governments less resistant to suggestions that gas and oil explorations- with their potential for pollution- be undertaken in the Great Lakes basin. (Canada already takes natural gas from Lake Erie.) These problems are not insoluble, but they will require a subtlety of technology and policy quite different from the massive input of dollars that cured many of the lakes...