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...being swept by rumors of tankers idling at sea to await higher prices before unloading, of refineries bulging with reserve stocks, of price-gouging from dock to gas pump. Forgetting how much their lives have already changed-who would have dared predict a year ago that 68° thermostat settings and gasless Sundays would so quickly become routine?-many Americans are asking not how the nation has managed to avoid the worst but whether there really is any energy shortage worth worrying about. Growing numbers are voicing suspicion that the whole emergency has been a hoax engineered...
...miserable when I am cold; I just don't function. But if the President can turn his thermostat back, then I can turn my thermostat back...
However, if the President or any of his family should go to a warm climate this winter, then I will be forced to turn my thermostat up and go for a Sunday drive...
RETAILERS cash registers are ringing because of panic buying of products that supposedly help consumers to cope with the fuel shortage. One hot item: a clock-operated thermostat that can lower nighttime temperatures automatically after everyone is asleep. Electric heaters are also selling rapidly, as are propane-burning catalytic heaters normally used by campers. The electric heaters gulp energy prodigiously, and the propane type can be dangerous in enclosed spaces because they give off carbon monoxide fumes...
...Sunday driving. Bonn Bureau Chief Bruce Nelan views the restrictions as a blessing, pointing out that gasoline in West Germany now costs about $1.20 a gallon. Correspondent Christopher Byron has responded to the crisis by turning off heat in his Bonn home during the day and setting the thermostat to 50° at night. Last week the Byron family sat down to Thanksgiving dinner dressed in overcoats...