July 18, 1979 - US Senators ask for synthetic fuel implications for greenhouse warming. Told. - All Our Yesterdays
On this day, July 18, in 1979, Senator Abraham Ribicoff asked for some advice about “synfuels.” The context was, the Carter Administration, desperate to reduce US dependency on problematic Middle Eastern Oil (not the dictatorships – that’s fine – it’s the interruptions to supply that’s the problem) was proposing an expensive crash program to develop […]
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