Drive to Conserve Sputters Even so, the drive has mostly sputtered.
Palace officials said a drive to conserve energy, including the introduction of low-energy light bulbs at palaces, had helped to keep cost increases in check.
But frantic efforts by utilities to increase power generation at plants outside the worst-hit zones, as well as a public drive to conserve energy, has eased the energy shortfall, allowing the government to lower its directive to 15 percent.
But there is a definite irony in a man famously above the effort of applying his own toothpaste to the toothbrush embarking on such a determined drive to conserve a grindingly poor village, where potatoes are still dug from the farms by hand.
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation led a $175 million drive to conserve 500,000 acres in California.
When satisfied that it is a good copy, delete the original from the hard drive to conserve disk space.
Motorists who drive more slowly to conserve fuel now face blaring horns and two-finger salutes.
The commitment to recycle is driven by the need to conserve natural resources, reduce imports of raw materials, save landfill space and reduce pollution.
Poverty likely drives more persons to conserve food; lack of reliable energy sources, clean water, and cooking supplies makes food preservation practices riskier; and food shortage compels persons to rely on preserved food for a larger proportion of their diet.
That encourages people to drive smaller cars and to conserve and that brings about investments in new technology.
If you drive at 60 mph to conserve your gas, you will still use it up, only not as rapidly as you would at 70 mph.
