President Richard Nixon
Address to the Nation [Second Address] About National Energy Policy.
November 25, 1973
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=4051
' . . . to increase the supply of heating oil that will be available this winter, we must adjust production schedules and divert petroleum which might normally go for the production of gasoline . . . the amount of gasoline which refiners distribute to wholesalers and retailers will be reduced across the Nation by 15 percent. . . '
' . . . the third step will be the establishment of a maximum speed limit for automobiles of 50 miles per hour nationwide [inter-city buses and trucks allowed 5 miles per hour faster] as soon as our emergency energy legislation passes the Congress. . . '
' . . . The fifth step involves cutting back on outdoor lighting . . . we are already planning right here at the White House to curtail such lighting that we would normally have at Christmastime, . . . '
' . . . What I have called
Project Independence 1980 [Emphasis added] is a series of plans and goals set to insure that by the end of this decade, Americans will not have to rely on any source of energy beyond our own. . . '