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The U.S. is already suffering increasing economic upset from energy inflation, and now the malaise will worsen. According to Administration calculations, the cost of crude oil imported into the U.S., which last month averaged $25 per bbl., will rise to from $28 to $30. Several of the nation's...
The projected increases are expected to raise the nation's oil import bill from about $62 billion this year to more than $83 billion, representing a rise in fuel costs of $80 for every American citizen. The increase, said Energy Secretary Charles Duncan, could add from 4? to 8...
President Carter's Council of Economic Advisers had its own glum set of figures on the Caracas spinoff: consumer prices will climb by 1% more than they would otherwise have during 1980, and some 250,000 more workers will lose jobs. U.S. economic output will be shaved by some...
The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which comprises the world's 24 leading non-Communist nations, also issued a grim forecast, and on an even larger scale: a rise to $26 per bbl. would cut nearly 1% off its members' economic growth, reducing it to...
Yet OPEC's failure to agree on a single price presents the oil-importing nations with a rare chance. If they substantially reduce their consumption of crude, prices at long last could be braked. Decreasing demand for petroleum can easily stampede OPEC's members into a back-stabbing...