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...second "conservation" option would aim at reducing the growth of energy use by such methods as enforcing national highway speed limits and standards for auto gas mileage; establishing national lighting standards and offering incentives such as lower fares and parking surcharges to get people to ride mass transit. Despite President Ford's stress on voluntary energy saving, the FEA experts argue that in order to be effective, many conservation measures would have to be mandatory...
...Ronan would detail the purposes of the loans and gifts further than vaguely citing real estate purchases and financial responsibilities. Ronan in 1968 became the $75,000-a-year chairman of New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which owns and operates the New York City area public transit system. He quit last May when Rocky was no longer Governor. Apparently in the few days before Ronan was appointed by the Governors of New York and New Jersey as the unsalaried head of the Port Authority of those two states, Rockefeller canceled the Ronan loans, which then totaled...
...Both the Transit Authority and the Port Authority, which operates more than 20 bridges, tunnels, airports and freight terminals, do multimillion-dollar business with New York banks, including Chase Manhattan, headed by David Rockefeller. Asked what, if anything, he did in return for the gift, Ronan jauntily told reporters: "I said thank...
...transportation, which uses 60% of all oil consumed by the U.S. The FEA has worked out a comprehensive program of a 300 per gal. gasoline surtax, mandatory fuel efficiency standards for new cars, high excise taxes on low-efficiency autos, and additional spending and operating subsidies for mass transit. Anticipated extra savings: 1.7 million bbl. a day by 1980, rising to 2.3 million...
...credit on investments in solar heating and cooling systems, and stern but sensible standards for limiting lighting and raising overall energy efficiency -all this could save another 775,000 bbl. a day by 1980 and 1.7 million bbl. by 1985. When this figure is added to the mass-transit potential savings, the U.S. could thus save as much as 6 million bbl. daily from the projected consumption of 19 to 20 million a decade hence...