Status of Federal energy conservation programs. Part 1. Hearing before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-Fifty Congress, first session on the progress achieved by Federal programs aimed at increasing the efficiency of energy use in the United States and the potential for further improvements in energy efficiency through additional legislation, April 4, 1977

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OSTI ID:5318282

The oversight hearing was conducted to study facts necessary to understand President Carter's energy conservation ideas. Energy conservation will demand sacrifice; any effective plan will demand, in the short term, greater capital outlay by industry, and, ultimately, by the consumer. Statements were heard from Dr. Barry Commoner, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri; Gary DeLoss, Public Interest Research Group; Dr. John Gibbons, University of Tennessee, accompanied by MaCauley Whiting, Dr. R. Eugene Goodson, Dr. Robert H. Williams, Eric Hirst, and Jerry Decker; Dr. R. Eugene Goodson, Purdue University; Denis Hayes, Worldwatch Institute, Washington, D.C.; Dr. Eric Hirst, ORNL, Senator Henry Jackson, Washington; Senator J. Bennett Johnston, Louisiana; Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, Alliance to Save Energy; Max Ladt, professional engineer, Paducah, Kentucky; Glenn E. Watts, Alliance to Save Energy and Communication Workers of America; MaCauley Whiting, Dow Chemical Company; and Dr. Robert H. Williams, Princeton University. (MCW)

• OSTI ID: 5318282
• Resource Relation: Related Information: Publication No. 95-41
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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