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National energy conservationA set of energy conservation actions that cut across all sectors of the economy were analyzed so that all actions under consideration be analyzed systematically and as a whole. The actions considered were as follows: (1) roll back the price of newly discovered oil, (2) freeze gasoline production for 3 years at 1972 levels, (3) mandate automobile mileage improvements, (4) require industry to improve energy efficiency, (5) require manufacture of household appliances with greater efficiency, (6) force conversion of many power plants from gas and oil to coal. The results showed that considerable gas and oil would be saved by forcing switches to coal. However, the large scale switch to coal was shown to require greatly increased outputs from many other industries that in turn require more energy. It was estimated that nearly 2.5 quads of additional coal were needed to produce these additional requirements. Also, the indirect requirements would create more jobs.
Document ID
19760014607
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Date Acquired
August 8, 2013
Publication Date
September 1, 1975
Publication Information
Publication: ECASTAR: Energy Conserv.
Subject Category
Energy Production And Conversion
Accession Number
76N21695
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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