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energy consumed in the United States. Hayes says that in 1975, Americans wasted more fossil fuel than was used by two-thirds of the world’s population. Wasted.
A Federal Energy Administration official has noted that West Germans, who have a “standard of living” similar to that of Americans, use only half as much energy per person. Says the FEA’s John G. Muller, “We could cut waste tremendously without changing the way we live. . .”
What changes? Stop driving enormous, gas-guzzling cars. Stop building houses without proper insulation. Use industrially-generated steam more efficiently. Stop overpackaging food (production of packaging gimmicks has increased faster than the consumption of food, using up enormous amounts of energy for superfluous wrappings, boxes and containers). Stop installing pilot lights on stoves. Stop producing so much aluminium from raw material and employ more recycling.
THERE are many, many things Americans could do— must do—to stop the prodigious waste of energy this nation is guilty of, and there’s hardly a one of these steps that could be properly classified as contributing to “a lower standard of living.”
Mr. Dalton’s approach to the problem is a familiar one among politicians. They look out at the great, spoiled, wasteful electorates which put them in office, and are loath to do or say anything that might suggest these people, should be less profligate, less greedy, less self-indulgent. So they say things like “(we) should seek new sources of energy,” so, presumably, we could go on being just as wasteful and thoughtless as we are now. _ -
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