Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Parts 1-3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976 - Interstate commerce |
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... billion worth of increase in import of crude oil , which of course had to be paid for somehow . What this table also shows is that it could not be paid for by exports of manufactured products , including transportation equipment . In ...
... billion worth of increase in import of crude oil , which of course had to be paid for somehow . What this table also shows is that it could not be paid for by exports of manufactured products , including transportation equipment . In ...
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... billion - dollar loans to set it up , and the net energy was one . That means they would no way in the world pay their interest back . Everybody in Britain would have to work for the oil company . That is just to show the absurdity of ...
... billion - dollar loans to set it up , and the net energy was one . That means they would no way in the world pay their interest back . Everybody in Britain would have to work for the oil company . That is just to show the absurdity of ...
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... billion as would a natural gas pipeline from the North Slope or Canada's Mackenzie Delta to the central United ... billions of dollars . To expect industry to raise or provide such quantities of capital in the present political climate ...
... billion as would a natural gas pipeline from the North Slope or Canada's Mackenzie Delta to the central United ... billions of dollars . To expect industry to raise or provide such quantities of capital in the present political climate ...
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... billion dollars . This amount , devoted to research and development directed toward a new , low - pollution type of engine , perhaps electric - powered , might finance a breakthrough that would result in substantial savings over the ...
... billion dollars . This amount , devoted to research and development directed toward a new , low - pollution type of engine , perhaps electric - powered , might finance a breakthrough that would result in substantial savings over the ...
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... billion barrels of oil equivalent ; see Chapter 3 ) . By 1974 , 1200 quadrillion BTU ( 210 billion barrels of oil equivalent ) , or almost 45 percent of the oil and gas resource base , had been consumed , leaving only the more expensive ...
... billion barrels of oil equivalent ; see Chapter 3 ) . By 1974 , 1200 quadrillion BTU ( 210 billion barrels of oil equivalent ) , or almost 45 percent of the oil and gas resource base , had been consumed , leaving only the more expensive ...
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Page 100 - •Ibid., p. 157. considerations as a view of the countryside accordingly come second. On such matters we are consistent.) 1'hey picnic on exquisitely packaged food from a portable icebox by a polluted stream and go on to spend the night at a park which is
Page 101 - airmattress, beneath a nylon tent, amid the stench of decaying refuse, they may reflect vaguely on the curious unevenness of their blessings. 1 Some interpretations of employment policy take it for granted that private enterprise investment should always be given the first claim on resources and
Page 143 - Non-durable goods: food and kindred products; textile mill products: apparel and other textile products; lumber and wood products; paper and allied products; printIng and publishing; chemicals and allied products; rubber and plastic products. General selected services: hotels, motels,
Page 120 - The Buddhist point of view takes the function of work to be at least threefold: to give a man a chance to utilise and develop his faculties: to enable him to overcome his ego-centredness by joining with other people in a common task; and to bring forth the goods and
Page 160 - With a high degree of confidence we can say that the intuitive solutions to the problems of complex social systems will be wrong most of the time. Here lies much of the explanation for the problems of faltering companies, disappointments in developing nations, foreign-exchange crises, and troubles of urban areas.
Page 100 - air-conditioned, power-steered, and power-braked car out for a tour passes through cities that are badly paved, made hideous by litter, blighted buildings, bill-boards, and posts for wires that should long since have been put underground. They pass on into a countryside that has been rendered largely invisible by commercial art. (The goods which the latter advertise have an absolute priority in our value system. Such aesthetic i
Page 20 - 12. Increasing literacy and education and (recently) the "knowledge industry" and increasing role of intellectuals. 13. Innovative and manipulative social engineering—ie, rationality increasingly applied to social, political, cultural, and economic worlds as well as to shaping and exploiting the material world—increasing problem of ritualistic, incomplete or pseudo rationality. 14. Increasing universality of the multifold trend. 15. Increasing tempo of
Page 119 - Right Livelihood" is one of the requirements of the Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path. It is clear, therefore, that there must be such a thing as Buddhist economics. Buddhist countries have often stated that they wish to remain faithful to their heritage. So Burma: "The New Burma sees no conflict between religious values and economic progress. Spiritual health and material
Page 125 - it has had so far. As you would expect, the degree of substitutability is also a key factor. If it is very easy to substitute other factors for natural resources, then there is in principle no "problem." The world can, in effect, get along without natural resources, so exhaustion
Page 111 - between environment and the reckless exploitation of man and earth in the name of efficiency. Industrial civilization has promoted the concept of the efficient man, he whose entire energies are concentrated on producing more in a given unit of time, from a given unit of