... percent of the residential and commercial market. Natural gas heats 39.4 million homes and 56 percent of all dwellings. It is the largest single fuel source for the residential, commercial, and industrial markets. economic impact Energy crisis conservation consumption quad natural gas supply...

... market can be traced in most cases to one of market restrictions or failure of the market to fully reflect costs due to externalities. It is these restrictions and/or externalities that have led to our present energy crisis and not any overt acts by present energy crisis and not any overt acts...

... "If something can go wrong, it will go wrong," so says Murphy's law. In the light of the current energy crisis in the U. S., may I submit an amendment to Murphy's law which goes like this: "If a number of separate but interrelated things can go wrong, sooner or later they will all go wrong...