The energy situation and the world of Californians

Peter A. Morrison

Expert InsightsPublished 1981

Text of a presentation to the Conference Board's West Coast Seminar on Regional Energy Issues, San Francisco, March 1981. The author discusses how the energy situation will affect the people of California. First, California's situation is not unique; energy prices are rising everywhere. Second, rising energy prices will hit certain groups and locations unevenly. Third, like the rest of the nation, California is vulnerable to the threat of interruption in the petroleum supply, but not to the same extent. Californians have advantages in their milder weather, their use of natural gas rather than fuel oil for heating, their potential for geothermal and solar sources of energy, and their state energy supply policy. California's population, however, exhibits most of the demographic trends found elsewhere in the nation. If higher energy costs diffuse throughout the entire price system, just about everything will be more expensive.

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  • Year: 1981
  • Pages: 11
  • Document Number: P-6669

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Morrison, Peter A., The energy situation and the world of Californians. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1981. https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P6669.html.
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