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Beige Book, Cleveland (Fourth District): February 1977
1 February 1977
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Abstract
The Federal Reserve's own account of the Ohio that Stan Meyer was working in when he turned to energy. Its Cleveland report of 9 February 1977, in the worst winter since the 1870s, says natural gas into Ohio had been curtailed every year since 1972, that daily flows met only 81 percent of the state's needs, and that steel, automobile, glass and metal plants were shutting for want of it. It is the background to the story Meyer told in Denver in 1997, of Columbia Gas telling Oh...
Federal Reserve, Beige Book: Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions, Cleveland district, 9 February 1977.
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Beige Book archive
Abstract
Energy shortages, aggravated by the coldest winter in the past 100 years, have hampered production, employment, income and sales in the Fourth District. […] Natural gas has been in short supply, and supplies of alternate fuels have been available but tight. According to an official with a major utility in Ohio, daily flows of natural gas into Ohio equal only 81 percent of the State's requirements. […] Because supplies of natural gas into Ohio have been curtailed each year since 1972, some manufacturers have switched to alternate fuels, including coal, oil and propane.
Why it is here
The Federal Reserve's own account of the Ohio that Stan Meyer was working in when he turned to energy. Its Cleveland report of 9 February 1977, in the worst winter since the 1870s, says natural gas into Ohio had been curtailed every year since 1972, that daily flows met only 81 percent of the state's needs, and that steel, automobile, glass and metal plants were shutting for want of it. It is the background to the story Meyer told in Denver in 1997, of Columbia Gas telling Ohio's industrial leaders their gas was being cut off (Denver 1997, the lecture, at 27:36), and to his first energy work, which was heat, not cars: the solar silo in Grove City, reported in the local paper as a project that could solve a national crisis in March 1976, half finished that April, near done that July, with its lenses to be made that October; and the Solar Pak talk he gave at the Carnegie library in Washington Court House on 26 April 1977, two months after this report. The Columbia Gas meeting itself is Meyer's account; this report is the record of the shortage around it. See also the timeline.
Provenance
- Shelf
- Reference Library
- Author
- Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
- Patent office record
- minneapolisfed.org →
- Rights
- A Federal Reserve publication, held in the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis's Beige Book archive. Indexed here with a short quotation and the archive's own note on why it is kept; the full report is at the link.
- Citation
- Federal Reserve, Beige Book: Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions, Cleveland district, 9 February 1977.
- Collected By
- the archive