Pub. L. 93-155, tit. VIII, sec. 811

Sec. 811. The Congress finds that the Department of Defense, which will use, at its present rate of consumption, an estimated twelve billion gallons of petroleum products in 1973, is one of the largest single consumers of petroleum products in the world, and that a reduction in consumption of such products by the Department of Defense would aid materially in meeting the energy shortages which the United States now faces. It is, therefore, declared to be the sense of the Congress that the Department of Defense should implement a 10 per centum reduction of its consumption of petroleum products except where such a reduction would adversely affect the national security or essential training exercises.