Word: oils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Indiana outbreak to an air conditioner with a bacteria-contaminated water supply. City inspectors swarmed through the district, taking water samples from air-conditioning systems, and draining and sterilizing rooftop tanks where the water was stored. Below, sanitationmen hosed down the streets and added a dash of mild pine oil to sweeten the smell...
...taken a hand at trying to force the bill through Congress. They claim that higher prices will promote development of new gas sources, and allow producers to extract already-discovered gas which is currently too expensive to bring up from the ground. New gas supplies will replace imported oil as a major energy resource, the argument runs, easing the U.S. balance of payments deficit and making Americans less dependent on foreign energy sources...
...called it "the centerpiece of our national energy policy." Secretary of Energy James R. Schlesinger '50 has pushed the bill as a vital means of curbing America's voracious energy appetite. And President Carter, who promised our Western allies at Bonn this summer that the U.S. would curtail its oil consumption by 2 million barrels a day before 1985, obviously considers gas deregulation a primary means of keeping his promise...
...will have many effects, but supplying Americans with a steady supply of reasonably-priced energy will not be one of them. For one thing, opponents of the bill argue, higher gas prices will actually increase our dependence on foreign energy imports by encouraging consumers to switch from gas to oil. And the burden borne by consumers who stick with gas will be tremendous: James Flug, head of a Washington-based consumer group called Energy Action, estimates that the bill will add $35 to $55 billion overall to the national energy price tag over a maddeningly vague period of time...
...heavily on residential users rather than on industry, raised incremental price levels for old gas which is already flowing, and put stringent limits on the amount of gas which can be allocated to home owners in an emergency shortage. none of these measures will help Americans to stop using oil or save energy; all of them were apparently inserted to placate feisty legislators from producing states, and hold together a fragile House-Senate compromise on the bill...