CBS Evening News - 1977-03-25 (starts at 0:25)
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[0:27] this is the CBS Evening News with Walter
[0:30] Kon kite good evening the time is
[0:33] narrowing when the administration must
[0:34] come up with its hard decisions on how
[0:37] this nation's going to handle a shortage
[0:39] of energy in the day President Carter
[0:41] called in the people to offer their
[0:42] ideas Nelson Benton has the
[0:45] story 19 ordinary citizens came to
[0:48] Washington at government expense to
[0:50] advise The Carter Administration on
[0:52] energy policy and their suggestions
[0:54] ranged from converting human waste as a
[0:57] substitute for petroleum based
[0:58] fertilizer to shutting Off the Lights
[1:01] downtown as you drive around or as you
[1:03] travel around this country at nights
[1:06] particularly you will find Billboards
[1:09] businesses industry government everybody
[1:14] with lights blazing all over this is a
[1:17] complete waste of electricity and it
[1:19] should be stopped we can sit at a
[1:21] conference like this forever and unless
[1:24] it comes right down to our pocketbook
[1:27] it's not going to reach the masses
[1:30] my husband and I just finished borrowing
[1:32] the money to put storm windows and doors
[1:35] on our house so any savings that we get
[1:38] from these improvements over the next
[1:40] two years they're going to be eaten up
[1:42] by the interest that we're paying on
[1:44] that loan but it's worth it to me energy
[1:47] Chief James slesinger told reporters the
[1:49] administration is considering increasing
[1:51] the gasoline tax as well as imposing a
[1:53] horsepower tax on big automobiles we
[1:57] will have to move in a variety of ways
[2:00] to ensure that automobiles are fuel
[2:03] efficient and to
[2:05] encourage uh care in the use of the
[2:08] automobile