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Gasoline Lines – Fall 1973

Gasoline Lines – Fall 1973. Drivers waiting for hours and limited to 10 gallons. Doubling to quadrupling of energy efficiency for cars, homes, appliances, and lights . Increased efficiency was a result of mostly energy smart products not energy smart users.

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Gasoline Lines – Fall 1973

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  1. Gasoline Lines – Fall 1973 Drivers waiting for hours and limited to 10 gallons.

  2. Doubling to quadrupling of energy efficiency for cars, homes, appliances, and lights . Increased efficiency was a result of mostly energy smart products not energy smart users.

  3. 1979, President Carter urged Americans to conserve energy. He maintained that the energy crisis was the moral equivalent of war, and in this war, people need to conserve energy to win.

  4. Can products be made even more efficiently, or are we close to the efficiency limits for many products?

  5. An energy unit saved is an energy unit earned. • A 10 percent reduction using a carrot or a stick.

  6. If an additional $3 of tax was added to the price of a gallon of gasoline what actions could be taken to reduce use?

  7. What problems might a $3 a gallon gasoline tax have on Americans?

  8. How might the billions of dollars of gasoline tax revenue be spent?

  9. What does it mean to ration a product?

  10. What problems do you see with gasoline rationing? How might these problems be resolved?

  11. How would the American public react to eliminating the use of gasoline for sporting and recreational use?

  12. How would you conserve if a 30 percent tax was placed on all home energy usage?

  13. How do you feel if the 30% tax was on energy use over a monthly allowed level of usage?

  14. Can a GREAT public relations effort prompt people to reduce energy use by 10 percent? Or will most people want the other guy to save the 10%?

  15. What carrots or tax credits are available to Americans today?

  16. Who should pay for the tax credits or carrots?What dollar amount or percentage of the purchase should tax payers provide?

  17. What’s the answer?Sticks, carrots, or both?

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