Long-term Energy Policy Issues: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session, on Energy Choices Facing the Country and the Direct and Indirect Costs Associated with These, March 23, 1977 |
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Page 1 - This position has been supported by a number of recently completed studies, such as that of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Nuclear and Alternative Energy Systems (CONAES...
Page 33 - I am professor of energy and resources at the University of California at Berkeley.
Page 129 - ... depends on the petroleum supply. Petroleum is the only energy resource immediately available to the United States' economy by importation from the world supply. It is also the only energy resource that possesses the versatility to satisfy the actual specific requirements of our various energy systems. Oil can be substituted for gas as a boiler fuel with minor conversion costs and pipeline grade gas can be produced from the light ends of liquid petroleum. Oil will do most anything that coal will...
Page 335 - Office of Technology Assessment, Comparative Analysis of the 1976 ERDA Plan and Program, Director Emilio Q.
Page 244 - Foundation has staked out a primary energy concern and created a research organ-15S -159ization with a long track record, but they have been almost alone in the field. Neither the foundations nor the independent research organizations have had any noticeable effect on the educational and political structure or the thought processes of the country. My survey of the 250 foundations represented by The Council on Foundations disclosed no interest in my energy research or any significant ongoing programs....
Page 216 - ... have to be resolved. There is no basis for believing that the economy can expand without limit. The contrary evidence has been building for more than one hundred years and the only reason for discarding this evidence is the past success of our economic development. Economics, as a discipline, has failed to develop beyond the monetary control mechanism and the summation of deprecatory activities. Energy will force a recognition of limits.
Page 134 - ... rich and the poor without discrimination. The wealth which has trickled down and lubricated the social structure has been energy wealth. Adam Smith is truly the prophet of the 19th and 20th centuries. He released the human energy for the exploitation of the new world and the development of the economy that shaped a civilization which has come to dominate the world in this modern era. But Adam Smith had little knowledge of the fossil fuels which are principally responsible for the power and hence...
Page 127 - The time span which has significance is the length of time that a nan is responsible for the consequences of his own decisions. Only the President is required to look eight years ahead and then only when he begins his term. It is difficult to overstate the significance of the actual planning limits of our free economy and political system. Ultimately, this problem must be faced and the decision can be more critical than the decisions I am identifying with the energy problem.
Page 321 - Report as well as Charles Reich's The Greening of America add perspective on the sociological aspect of the limits problem. All three books are imaginative and were widely circulated. The direct attack on pecuniary economics and unlimited expansion is represented in The Limits to Grouth, a report for the Club of Rome's project on the predicament of mankind.
Page 249 - Coordination of the envirormental protection and the energy production responsibilities The conflict between environmental protection and energy production cannot continue. The agencies were created during different periods of time representing different national priorities. The separation of interests has provided the opportunity for the coalition of opposing forces within the body politic, virtually stalemating the production of energy from coal, the source of energy which will become most important...