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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some officials are already talking about spending the revenues on things that have nothing to do with energy. One Treasury Department idea being examined by staffers on the House Ways and Means Committee is to use the proceeds to cut the size of the huge Social Security tax increases that Congress voted last year to go into effect beginning...
...have to be increased by at least 50%. But, as gasohol advocates point out, the Government now encourages farmers to hold down their grain crops, so expanding production would not be too difficult. Moreover, alcohol can be produced from a variety of infinitely renewable sources. Though U.S. distillers now use mainly corn as their alcohol base, experts assert that just about any substance with a high starch or sugar content could be used, including wheat, potatoes and sugar cane...
Even with present technology, gasohol could eventually become competitive with other fuels if gasoline prices continue to rise. In Brazil, where regular gas costs $1.50 per gal., the government has launched a strong program to have all motorists use gasohol by 1982. Skepticism about gasohol still exists at the top levels of the DOE. A yet-to-be-released department study estimates that, under existing conditions, gasohol will account for less than 1% of the motor fuel consumed in the U.S. by 1985. That could change as distilling technology improves and oil prices rise. As one DOE official notes: "Right...
...headquarters have been busy tagging the antique furniture for auction. Now company managers are bracing for another shock. They expect that later this month the SEC will bring charges against ISC for extensive bribery of foreign government officials, as well as for concocting misleading financial statements and for excessive use of corporate funds for executive perquisites...
...safety factor "marginal at best," and said it was not enough to outweigh the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures. There is, said White, "a 'grave danger' of abuse of discretion." The decision means that police will no longer be able to use such dubious reasons as the length of a driver's hair or the color of his skin to stop a car. In the court's view, wrote White, random checks by policemen are "an unsettling show of authority"; people have as much reason to expect privacy from government intrusion...