The Secretary's Decision on Concorde Supersonic Transport

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The Department, 1976 - 100 էջ
 

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Էջ 55 - The United States cradles other significant potential sources of stratospheric pollution — military aircraft operations, fertilizers, the space shuttle program — and unless the United States is willing to act against these sources as well, action against the Concorde could well be perceived as discriminatory. Apart from appearance of discrimination, the British and French might perceive in a negative decision an unfair element of surprise, a defeat of justifiable reliance. No promises have been...
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Էջ 31 - States transportation. 41/ in the context of the overall United States energy conservation program, the fuel used by the Concorde is therefore not significant. The FEA and certain participants at the public hearing have argued, however, that I should ban the Concorde as a symbolic gesture. I certainly agree with the view that this is a time when we should be encouraging more fuelefficient technology, when Americans must learn to be more frugal in the use of our precious natural resources. As a public...
Էջ 61 - It may well be that further development of this technology is not economically sensible in the energy and environmentally conscious period in which we live. If so, then the Concorde will fail because it is an anachronism, and its failure will be recognized as such rather than attributed to an arbitrary and protectionist attitude of the United States out of fear that our dominance of the world aeronautical manufacturing market is threatened.
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