Socio-economic impact of energy-related policy on Hispanic New Mexico: attitudes, values, and policy perceptions. Final technical report
A one-year study of the impact of energy-related policies on 584 Hispanic families in the New Mexico communities of Taos, Albuquerque and Las Cruces was conducted. Sixteen hypotheses focusing on nine energy impact issues were tested: energy use and expenditures, conservation efforts, market basket effects, employment and energy, recreation and leisure activities, transportation effects, attitudes towards energy cost, attitudes towards rate structure, and evaluation of the federal energy assistance program. Recommendatons call for an energy message program geared to regional and socio-cultural factors, a companion program to solarize homes and farm structures utilizing technologies suitable to the region, incentives to private sector minority entrepreneurs equipping them with solar venture capabilities that will serve local markets and create jobs, and energy safety net and an intensive greenhouse program that will protect the market basket resources of the poor, a government policy on transportation and energy that will insure access to essential formal and informal points in the health and welfare system, and lastly, a federal-state-local partnership of financial and technical assistance options at the community level to expand energy assistance and weatherization programs.
- Research Organization:
- New Mexico Univ., Albuquerque (USA). Southwest Hispanic Research Inst.
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG01-81AD11263
- OSTI ID:
- 5731997
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/AD/11263-T1; ON: DE84001806
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Portions are illegible in microfiche products
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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