power: its significance and needs. 
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Bulletin 102, vol. 1. The energy resources of the United States: 
A plan for reconstruction, by Chester G. Gilbert and Joseph E. 
Pogue. (In press.) 
This paper brings together the substance of parts 4, 5, and 6 of Bulletin 102, 
together with an introduction and a conclusion that coordinate the details of 
the discussion and draw forth the main issues. It is concluded that the whole 
matter involves the threefold problem of fuel supply, power supply, and trans- 
portation, and that the entire field may be cleared by (1) providing a common- 
carrier system of electric transmission lines which will (a) lead to a balanced 
development of coal-power and water-power, and (b) serve as a coordinating 
influence in stimulating by-product recovery from coal in central power stations, 
and especially in municipal, public utility fuel plants; and (2) applying a 
constructive economic policy and appropriate legislation to the conditions sur- 
rounding petroleum production so as to bring the method of production into 
conformance with the geological occurrence of the resource. It is believed that 
these measures would effect economies offsetting, in large part, the cost of the 
war. 
Note. — The papers listed above as parts of Bulletin 102 are mem- 
bers of a series entitled “ The Mineral Industries of the United 
States.” 
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