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Focuses on U.S. Senator Henry Martin Jackson. Admiration of Jackson by labor leader, George Meany and Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley; Popularity of Jackson among white, middle-class suburban voters; Opposition of Jackson to funds the House Un-American Activities Committee; Explanation given by Jackson to housewives that inflation is the result of the energy crisis indirectly caused by Russians; Initiation of the legislation, the National Environment Policy Act, by Jackson.

Comments on the big oil companies spending a lot of money promoting the existence of an energy crisis in the U.S. Series of editorial-page advertisements run by oil firms advising the American public on how to cut home heating and gasoline costs; Use by the oil firms of the advertising campaigns to criticize environmental laws they are forced to observe and lend weight to arguments in favor of higher fuel prices and looser government controls; Implications on the energy industries and environmental policies.