Outrageous, yet hilarious: People Power: What communities are doing to counter inflation, by US Office of Consumer Affairs. "Free" (no extra on top of your taxes) from Consumer Info-Center, Pueblo, CO 81009; more than 400 large pages, endorsed by Ralph Nader and other champions of people power. Under "Energy," we find advice on how to stop rate increases, oppose more electric capacity, and prevent construction work in progress, plus pages and pages of helpful organizations like Environmental Action, Friends of the Earth, Sierra Club, and the like. They don't just print money in Washington, but also recipes how to fight inflation. Help yourself to this counter-culture book
¾you paid for it!1) America's Energy Famine by Ruth Sheldon Knowles (U. of Okla. Press), is most disappointing after her previous book on the history of oil exploration. A rational book on the causes and cures of the energy famine is spoiled by a few pages of parroted superstitions on nuclear power; and all it needed was a little more homework.
2) Windpower principles by Calvert, publ. by John Wiley & Sons, has 122 small pages, straight type (no formulas), few and very simple illustrations, and costs $21.11; Sure, costs are going up: This newsletter will have to go to $18 at the end of the year, and Golem Press could not make Hammer & Tickle under $4 postpaid. But $21? As free marketeers we do not dispute Wiley's right to set whatever price they wish; and as free marketeers we returned it for a refund.
|
Vol. 8, No. 3
Newsletter: Access to Energy Newsletter Archive Volume: Volume 8 Issue/No.: Vol. 8, No. 3 Date: November 01, 1980 04:18 PM Title: Electing peace
Copyright © 2004 - Access to Energy Newsletter Archive
|