Word: unless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meet the world's growing need for water. No matter what is done to stretch water supplies, they will become inadequate if man continues to waste and contaminate them-and to reproduce in numbers that strain all natural resources. The world is getting thirstier by the day, and unless it starts saving water now, it may find the well dry tomorrow...
...will be available when present reserves of oil and gas go into steep decline. And the use of coal and nuclear-fission power is not expanding nearly rapidly enough to fill the looming energy gap. Hence, the U.S. faces the terrible threat of closed factories and cold, dark homes unless its politicians can master a new kind of challenge: taking painful steps now to grapple with a crisis that will not reach its most dangerous point until long after the President, his aides and most of the Congressmen who will vote on his program have ended their terms of office...
...guzzling autos. According to the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975, which the new Administration is embracing, each manufacturer by 1980 must produce a line of cars that achieve an average 20 m.p.g.; by 1985 the average must be 27.5 m.p.g. That is now an impossible goal unless auto engineers make dramatic-and unexpected-breakthroughs in engine efficiency and the use of lighter metals for body construction. Says Schlesinger: "A lighter car that gives 25 m.p.g., v. a heavier car that gives 12 m.p.g., is a relatively minor issue compared with not having cars...
...relies too much on federal direction, too little on the forces of the free market. Rule 1 in energy conservation is that while people may for a while obey presidential exhortations to set thermostats at 65°, they will not cut back on energy use in the long run unless waste is made prohibitively expensive. Rule 2 is that energy companies will not invest the huge sums needed in costly domestic exploration for oil and gas unless they are assured of a profitable return. The best way to follow both rules would be to enact a relatively speedy dismantling...
...should pledge to veto any such move. At the very moment when incalculably huge sums are needed to develop new sources of energy, the oil companies alone in U.S. industry have the muscle-money, know-how and organization-to do the job. And their own survival is at stake: unless they expand into new sources of energy, they will die with the depletion of the world's oil and gas reserves. But as long as they face a serious threat of breakup, they will not make the investments required. In return for a pledge to stop dismemberment, Carter should...