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Show save you a small percentage or your total usage by cutting cut-ting down my consumption' the point Is that the only ' way to make significant progress pro-gress in energy conservation Is by accumulating the small savings of many, many users," said Moss. The Senator said solar energy en-ergy and nuclear fusion and other forms of energy promise prom-ise to ease the energy crunch in the more distant future. use a shotgun approach, aiming aim-ing at small savings In a great many target areas." It is estimated that ordinary ordin-ary pilot lights and decorative decora-tive natural gas lights account ac-count for 20 percent of America's Am-erica's consumption of natural na-tural gas, Moss said. He also pointed out that It is estimated that reducing the average automobile weight to 2,500 pounds would cut total gasoline consumption consump-tion in 1985 to the projected level for 1975. Saving two million barrels of oil per day would cut imports im-ports which by 1985 would amount to a reduction In the U.S. balance of payments devlcit of 2.3 billion dollars annually, Moss said. "While any potential user can rightfully say 'don't take it out on me, I can only Moss Calls For Energy Conservation America's energy crisis was placed in perspective today by Utah Senator Frank E. (Ted) Moss in a speech before a meeting of the National Na-tional Association of Regulatory Regula-tory Utility Commissioners in San Diego. Moss stressed the importance impor-tance of relatively small energy-saving measures during dur-ing the next few years until new forms of energy become , available. "The institution of conservation con-servation measures can more than meet our short-term short-term needs," said Moss. He said it is estimated that the U.S. could reduce per capita energy consumption 37 percent per-cent by the year 2000 with no reduction in the standard of living. i "There is no single conservation con-servation measure that can significantly affect total consumption," con-sumption," Moss observed. "As a result, energy conservation con-servation programs must |