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FULL PAGE advertisements in the metropolitan papers, placed by oil dealers, call upon the President and the Congress to adopt a nationwide “energy policy.” Consumers fret, prices rise, dire predictions of shortages are issued. • But consumption goes on as usual — no, it’s “more than usual”; consumption is continuing to rise at an alarming rate.

The speaker at the most recent meeting of the Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection touched on what may be the only possible “energy policy,” and that is that all of us are going to have to stop using so much.

If automobile manufacturers continue to be irresponsible in grinding out monstrous gas-guzzlers, then we, as responsible citizens, are going to have to stop buying them, and using them.

If utility companies keep . seeking higher prices and more and more expansion of their facilities, then we are going to have to stop using superfluous appliances and gadgets, and trim even the

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