Background Readings on Energy Policy: Selected Materials, Compiled by the Staff of the Committee on Ways and Means with the Asistance of the Congressional Research Service, March 1, 19751975 - 883 páginas |
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Background Readings on Energy Policy: Selected Materials United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means Visualização de excertos - 1975 |
Background Readings on Energy Policy: Selected Materials United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means Visualização de excertos - 1975 |
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Página 237 - Algeria, Ecuador, Gabon, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Venezuela.
Página 387 - Extensive hearings followed before the House Committee on Ways and Means, and the Senate Committee on Finance.
Página 90 - Stanford Research Institute, Patterns of Energy Consumption in the United States, prepared for the Office of Science and Technology, Executive Office of the President, 1972. in ten families have two cars, and one in ten has three or more.7 Total vehicle miles driven in the United States...
Página 399 - Estimates of Federal Tax Expenditures." The estimates for calendar years 1967 through 1972 were prepared by the staffs of the Treasury Department and the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation.
Página 219 - The sources are the following: Chase Manhattan Bank, "Outlook for Energy in the United States to 1985," June, 1972; Warren E. Morrison and Charles Readling, "An Energy Model of the US Featuring Energy Balances of the Years 1947-1965 and Projections and Forecasts to the Year 1980 and 2000,
Página 224 - Four: The Supply of Natural Gas The shortage of natural gas in the United States has grown rapidly in the last two or three years. By now, it probably exceeds ten per cent of total demands. This is not a result of a shifting of demands to natural gas due to the Arab oil embargo. Rather, it is a continuous and systematic long-term shortage, and there is every reason to believe that it will not be eased appreciably in the remaining years of this decade under...
Página 696 - ... quality of existence. Those who defend economic growth rest their case essentially on the following points: 1. For all the misallocations and mistakes, environmental and otherwise, that have been made in the process of growth, it is still demonstrably true that growth in per capita GNP has been associated with rising levels of human well-being. 2. Much if not most of the environmental damage associated with growth is a function of the way we grow— of the nature of our technology and the forms...
Página 696 - ... mineral resources and fossil fuels be managed through the pricing system constitutes a "license to exploit" the biosphere, a license that should be revoked or subjected to tighter regulation. But the economist wants to spread the net of the pricing mechanism widely to capitalize on its automaticity in digesting information and responding to it, its ability to integrate a vast range of decisions, its stimulus to natural resource conservation, and its lowering of demands on the government bureaucracy....
Página 65 - It would, however, mean an end to the "more is better" philosophy, replacing it with one saying "enough is best." There would be a saturation point where no further increases in annual energy consumption would be needed. Further, because of its greater efficiency in using energy, the ZEG scenario would include many more energy benefits than the nation now enjoys. All of the householder's basic energy needs could be met. Appliances like air conditioners and dishwashers, often classed as luxuries today,...
Página 40 - But the price that we demand of society for this magical energy source is both a vigilance and a longevity of our social institutions that we are quite unaccustomed to...