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...fuel shortage may seriously cripple the ski industry this winter, but anyone who has entertained the thought of investing in ski equipment for Christmas should not be swayed by this bleak prospect. Even if the dearth of fuel closes your favorite resort or prevents you from getting to the slopes very often this season, you would do well to check out the Boston ski shops just the same...
...buyer's market in the ski equipment industry this year; the best opportunity in years to get new, top-notch equipment at drastically reduced prices. The sales of recent weeks have been phenomenal and they are continuing. A lot of factors have led to the creation of this market, not the least of which is the overflow from the tremendous flood of new equipment models and accessory styles in the last few years...
...ski manufacturers completely redesign their ski models each year, thereby forcing dealers to unload surpluses at reduced prices. But this year, because of the general tightening of money and the dim fuel prospects, manufacturers and dealers have found themselves sitting on huge inventories of both last year's and this year's equipment...
...restrictions on speed and the scarcity of gasoline will also hurt operators of ski resorts, many of which can be reached only by cars or a few buses...
...brilliant fall, this promises to be Europe's cruelest winter of discontent. Like America, Europe has celebrated more than a quarter-century of spiraling conspicuous consumption, and it is not mentally prepared to do without. Cars clog the cities. Lights burn through the night. Parents plan their precious ski holidays around the Christmas vacation, assuming that they can all go on living as they are. But that will not happen. The fourth Arab-Israeli war and its consequences have brought Western Europe to the point of no return...