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<br />0441. <br /> <br />SECTION I. BACKGROUND. BOOM TOWN FINANCING PROBLEMS <br /> <br />National Energy Needs <br />In recent years, the United States has experienced problems involving <br />energy resources, the amount and type of energy used, and wasteful uses <br />of energy. <br /> <br />The United States, which uses one-third of the world's <br />total energy consumption, relies most on its least <br />plentiful domestic energy resources and least on its <br />most abundant ones. Coal, our most plentiful fossil <br />fuel currently supplies less than 20 percent of our <br />energy needs. Uranium, which has a domestic energy <br />potential even larger than coal, provides only two <br />percent of our energy. The contribution of solar <br />energy is negligible.* <br /> <br />As domestic supplies of oil and gas have continued to dwindle, our use of <br />them has steadily increased. In just over 20 years the United States <br /> <br />*Energy Research & Development Administration, Creating Energy Choices for <br />the Future, A Summary of the National Plan for EnerQY Research, Develop- <br />ment and Demonstration, 1976, p. 4. <br />