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energyTHEN: Gregory Peck on Energy Efficiency

Length 1:33
Created 06.22.11
Air Date 06.19.11

energyTHEN takes us back to 1979, when screen legend Gregory Peck starred in a film from the Alliance to Save Energy, urging Americans to be more efficient. The film was made at the time of the Iranian hostage crisis, when the price of oil more than doubled in two years, sending shockwaves through the U.S. economy. Peck warns the audience that the amount of energy the U.S. wasted in the previous year equaled all the oil it imported.

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