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New York Times (1923-Currentfile); Jan 6, 1976;

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) with Index (1851-1993)

pg. 49

 

 

 

 

Look around you.
Do you like what you see?

Exploding costs, lowered budgets, construction

cutbacks, friends out of work?all are due in
no small part to the fact that we have failed to
solve our energy problem.

Unless we unless we encourage the
growth of available energy. . . what you see is
buta prelude to privation. 

Ahead is almost certainly a widespread power
shortage. With diminished industrial produc-
tion, fewerjobs, and all the misery that goes 
with them.

Yet, today, there are still those who shrill for
less energy and no growth.

They calloust ignore this fact: jobs and a
comfortable life are possible only with the
availabilitny sufficient energy, properly used.

America?s progress is proof perfect.
Without an abundance of energy itwould never

 

have been possible to produce more than any

nation in history. .
Norto help so manythe world over.

New America is obligated to generate more
energy?not less?merer to provide for its
increasing population. And for its poor, who
have every right to hope for all the things that
give decency to life.

To do less would reduce much of the middle-
class to poor, and the poor to a life of despair.

With oil and gas in shortsupply, where Will that
energy come from?

Predominantly, from coal.

The US. Department of the Interior estimates
America has 23% more coal than we ever
dreamed of. 4,000,000,000,000 (trillion!) tons of it.

Enough for over 500 years.

We need only to dig it?with reclamation rules
that enforce respect forthe land?and we can
start to put its energy to work immediately.

And start to conserve oil and gas.
Coal and Conservation.

Under that program we won?t have to worry
about the effects of another oil price hike-or
an embargo?or a power shortage?on our
friends or on ourselves.

So look around you and do something.

if it seems that some in government are more
absorbed in managing the problem than in
solving it, write to your Congressman.

Tell him America needs an energy policy based
on Coal and Conservation. Not on politics.

It will cost you 10? but it might save yourjob.

 
  

The call to greater
energy independence

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