Word: willingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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As the cost of electricity disappears round the bend, as heating oil levitates to 90¢ per gal. from about 55¢ a year ago, grubbing for firewood in a muddy forest does not seem such a bad idea. A few years ago, a good many Americans could not have said for...
He proposes that heat pumps be employed to warm the building in winter, simultaneously making ice that will be stored in huge underground bunkers until sum mer, when it can be used to cool the structures without consuming electricity. Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, the architectural firm renowned for its skyscrapers...
Buying a stove is one thing; figuring the economics of woodburning is quite another. The countrified city man who got Linda stuck in the mud has eight cords of wood, harvested from his own property, split and stacked under cover. He will heat his house this year for about $100...
The Iran shortfall actually will not register until January, and while it may cause a gasoline shortage early next year, Washington describes heating-oil reserves as being above 1978 levels and higher than the "projected normal stock range." The fact is that less heating oil has been ordered by customers...
Some of the cracks that must be plugged as the nation tries to keep warm are in the structure of the society itself. The poor and the old living on fixed incomes can muster no defense against rising heating bills. Stella Falco, 74, a white-haired widow who lives in...