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WITH THE PUBLICATION of Energy: The Next Twenty Years (Ballinger Publishing Co., 17 Dunster St., Cambridge, Mass. 02138; $9.95), the intellectual battle about the causes of the energy crisis may be considered officially over.

In a nutshell, this volume tells us the United States and the world in general are not running out of energy, and are in no conceivable danger of doing so for many centuries; that the shortages of the present hour are chiefly the result of government interference, especially in the realm of price controls; and that the answer to this problem is the obvious one of getting government out of the roadbed—preferably without such political makeweights as a “windfall profits tax.” All of which would seem to be the last word on the subject.

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WITH THE PUBLICATION of Energy: The Next Twenty Years (Ballinger Publishing Co., 17 Dunster St., Cambridge, Mass. 02138; $9.95), the intellectual battle about the causes of the energy crisis may be considered officially over.

In a nutshell, this volume tells us the United States and the world in general are not running out of energy, and are in no conceivable danger of doing so for many centuries; that the shortages of the present hour are chiefly the result of government interference, especially in the realm of price controls; and that the answer to this problem is the obvious one of getting government out of the roadbed—preferably without such political makeweights as a “windfall profits tax.” All of which would seem to be the last word on the subject.