"When James Schlesinger was Secretary of Defense," Mr. Buckley begins, "the

good news is that there was no war. Now that he is Secretary of Energy, the bad news is that there is no energy, or at least not enough of it, or more exactly a looming world scarcity of it." This is not another discussion of OPEC, but rather one of what we can do given continued OPEC intransigence. Mr. Schlesinger places more reliance on government manipulation, Mr. Buckley more reliance on the free market, in this informative discussion ranging from why there is so much bad blood between coal miners and mine owners, to how Americans can be persuaded of the virtues of nuclear energy (Mr. Schlesinger was once head of the Atomic Energy Commission), to how we can become less profligate in our use of energy: JS: "Prices have always been low in the United States. Energy has been cheap. The American character is expansive. It has not recognized these limits, the question of finiteness. The only experience that America has had with finiteness was the closing of the frontier."