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<br />_-\mlllll.: Iht' major mineral fuels the hidle~t ralt' of growlh an incrt'a.-.e <br />of mort' than 100 pt'r n'nt, is t'~timat('d for natural gas: oil follows. with <br />an 85 pN ct'nl increase brlwt't'n 1955 and 19,5, abuut the same as for <br />all t'llf'Tgy. (See lower ri~ure opposite.) Biluminous cO-al shuws the <br />smallt.;;t growlh among the major fuels, incrf"asing by ,0 prr cenl in the <br />twt'nly-year pt'riod. .-\nthracite is the only \Jne of the primary enerl?:Y <br />!'-ources estimated to suffer an ausolult' dt'dine-by one-Ihird, <br /> <br />- <br />'" <br /> <br />TII.. Po1tt..", of ,'",'rty 11.1,', by IV/ireI', <br />NJ501/l,f197J. <br /> <br /><_. <br />.n <br /> <br />H....oloHo <br />"n <br /> <br /> <br />H.oloHoc..........". <br /> <br />." <br /> <br />N.....oloHo <br /> <br />." <br /> <br />""' <br /> <br />>on <br /> <br />~4"~ <br />~,,'" <br /> <br />C.._a.l <br /> <br />." <br /> <br />1975 <br /> <br />I>r.;pile Ihf"se diffl'f('nt rates of t~han!!l'. the resulting o\'er-all pattern <br />of enl'rg)' u~ by source in 1975 is remarkably unchangt'd hUlll that of <br />1955. 1St't> figure abo\"e.) Oil rrmains the source of tWt)-lifths of the <br />total energy consumptiun. :\atural gas rt"plact'~ coal as the second <br />ranking energy SQuret', but E'ach rt'lllains the wurce of ;!TOund nne-quarteT <br />of Ihe total. ~aturall!:as liquids and hydropower together account for 7 <br />per cent of Ihe total in bnth yE'ars, with the former gaining. and the latter <br />dl'Clining sli;(htly, (.-\11 tht' abo\"{' is without allowance for tht" po$."ible <br />place oi nucl('ar ent"rgy in tht' total-an aspect includt'd in the full ~tudy.l <br />The preliminary findin~s on future t'nt'rl!:Y consumptiun, wht'n COnl- <br />par('{j with the historical record. continut' ont' of the charactt"ristics of thE' <br />dt'n'lnpnwnt of l'nit('{j Statt'S enf"r2y consumption-thf" disparalt' rates (If <br /> <br />19 <br />